GTN.A vs. SBGI, GTN, SSP, EVC, TV, TGNA, MBUU, BWMX, AMC, and XPOF
Should you be buying Gray Television stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gray Television include Sinclair (SBGI), Gray Television (GTN), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Entravision Communications (EVC), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), TEGNA (TGNA), Malibu Boats (MBUU), Betterware de México, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (BWMX), AMC Entertainment (AMC), and Xponential Fitness (XPOF). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Sinclair (NASDAQ:SBGI) and Gray Television (NYSE:GTN.A) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Sinclair received 294 more outperform votes than Gray Television when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.82% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave Sinclair an outperform vote.
Sinclair currently has a consensus price target of $18.14, suggesting a potential upside of 46.05%. Given Gray Television's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Sinclair is more favorable than Gray Television.
In the previous week, Sinclair had 1 more articles in the media than Gray Television. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Sinclair and 3 mentions for Gray Television. Gray Television's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Sinclair's score of 0.31 indicating that Sinclair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
41.7% of Sinclair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Gray Television shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.7% of Sinclair shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Gray Television shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sinclair has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gray Television has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gray Television has higher revenue and earnings than Sinclair. Gray Television is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sinclair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gray Television has a net margin of -2.32% compared to Gray Television's net margin of -9.29%. Gray Television's return on equity of 26.46% beat Sinclair's return on equity.
Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Sinclair pays out -20.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gray Television pays out -23.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Sinclair beats Gray Television on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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