GTN vs. ADEA, LILA, CABO, LILAK, ATUS, TV, ATEX, GTN.A, WOW, and IHRT
Should you be buying Gray Television stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gray Television include Adeia (ADEA), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Cable One (CABO), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Altice USA (ATUS), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Anterix (ATEX), Gray Television (GTN.A), WideOpenWest (WOW), and iHeartMedia (IHRT). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
Gray Television vs.
Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) and Adeia (NASDAQ:ADEA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
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.
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.
Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Adeia pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Gray Television pays out 9.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Adeia pays out 35.1% 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.
Gray Television received 390 more outperform votes than Adeia when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.91% of users gave Adeia an outperform vote while only 66.88% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Gray Television had 1 more articles in the media than Adeia. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Gray Television and 9 mentions for Adeia. Adeia's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Gray Television's score of 0.59 indicating that Adeia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gray Television has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adeia has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.6% of Gray Television shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Adeia shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Gray Television shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Adeia shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Gray Television presently has a consensus price target of $6.33, indicating a potential upside of 32.50%. Adeia has a consensus price target of $18.33, indicating a potential upside of 31.61%. Given Gray Television's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Gray Television is more favorable than Adeia.
Summary
Adeia beats Gray Television on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:GTN) was last updated on 3/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
