GTN vs. ADEA, TV, ATUS, LILAK, LILA, GTN.A, CABO, ATEX, WOW, and SPIR
Should you be buying Gray Television stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gray Television include Adeia (ADEA), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Altice USA (ATUS), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Gray Television (GTN.A), Cable One (CABO), Anterix (ATEX), WideOpenWest (WOW), and Spire Global (SPIR). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
Gray Television vs. Its Competitors
Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) and Adeia (NASDAQ:ADEA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Gray Television received 388 more outperform votes than Adeia when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.00% of users gave Adeia an outperform vote while only 66.72% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote.
78.6% of Gray Television shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Adeia shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.2% of Gray Television shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Adeia shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Gray Television presently has a consensus target price of $6.17, suggesting a potential upside of 52.45%. Adeia has a consensus target price of $17.33, suggesting a potential upside of 25.15%. Given Gray Television's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Gray Television is more favorable than Adeia.
Adeia has a net margin of 17.19% compared to Gray Television's net margin of 5.69%. Adeia's return on equity of 32.81% beat Gray Television's return on equity.
In the previous week, Gray Television had 4 more articles in the media than Adeia. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Gray Television and 3 mentions for Adeia. Gray Television's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Adeia's score of 1.24 indicating that Gray Television is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gray Television has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adeia has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Adeia pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Gray Television pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Adeia pays out 30.3% 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. Gray Television is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Adeia has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gray Television. Gray Television is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adeia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Adeia beats Gray Television on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:GTN) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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