GTN vs. GTN.A, SBGI, SSP, EVC, TV, UTI, RSVR, RICK, NRDY, and JOUT
Should you be buying Gray Television stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gray Television include Gray Television (GTN.A), Sinclair (SBGI), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Entravision Communications (EVC), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Reservoir Media (RSVR), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Nerdy (NRDY), and Johnson Outdoors (JOUT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) and Gray Television (NYSE:GTN.A) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
78.6% of Gray Television shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Gray Television shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of Gray Television shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Gray Television shares are held by company 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.
Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Gray Television pays out -23.0% 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.
Gray Television currently has a consensus target price of $12.80, suggesting a potential upside of 128.16%. Given Gray Television's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Gray Television is more favorable than Gray Television.
Gray Television received 254 more outperform votes than Gray Television when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.05% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote while only 66.82% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote.
Gray Television has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gray Television has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gray Television had 4 more articles in the media than Gray Television. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Gray Television and 2 mentions for Gray Television. Gray Television's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Gray Television's score of -0.22 indicating that Gray Television is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gray Television is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gray Television, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gray Television beats Gray Television on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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