Gray Television (GTN) Competitors

Adeia (NASDAQ:ADEA) and Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ADEA or GTN?

Gray Television received 389 more outperform votes than Adeia when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 91.30% of users gave Adeia an outperform vote while only 66.88% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Adeia	Outperform Votes 21 91.30%	Underperform Votes 2 8.70%
Gray Television	Outperform Votes 410 66.88%	Underperform Votes 203 33.12%

Is ADEA or GTN a better dividend stock?

Adeia pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Adeia pays out 35.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gray Television pays out 9.6% 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.

Is ADEA or GTN more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Adeia	17.19%	32.81%	11.24%
Gray Television	5.69%	9.60%	1.85%

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, ADEA or GTN?

Adeia has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Adeia	$376.02M	3.55	$64.62M	$0.57	21.60
Gray Television	$3.64B	0.09	-$76M	$3.33	1.01

Which has more risk & volatility, ADEA or GTN?

Adeia has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gray Television has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate ADEA or GTN?

Adeia presently has a consensus price target of $18.33, indicating a potential upside of 48.93%. Gray Television has a consensus price target of $6.33, indicating a potential upside of 89.05%. Given Gray Television's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gray Television is more favorable than Adeia.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Adeia	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Gray Television	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of ADEA or GTN?

97.4% of Adeia shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Gray Television shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Adeia shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of Gray Television shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer ADEA or GTN?

In the previous week, Gray Television had 5 more articles in the media than Adeia. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Gray Television and 2 mentions for Adeia. Gray Television's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Adeia's score of 1.18 indicating that Gray Television is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Adeia	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Gray Television	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Adeia beats Gray Television on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.