IDW vs. CSSE, MMV, ELYS, SBET, BON, LTRY, NVFY, TRNR, VMAR, and VEDU
Should you be buying IDW Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IDW Media include Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (CSSE), MultiMetaVerse (MMV), Elys BMG Group (ELYS), SharpLink Gaming (SBET), Bon Natural Life (BON), Lottery.com (LTRY), Nova LifeStyle (NVFY), Interactive Strength (TRNR), Vision Marine Technologies (VMAR), and Visionary Education Technology Holdings Group (VEDU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (NASDAQ:CSSE) and IDW Media (NYSE:IDW) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 840.51%. Given IDW Media's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is more favorable than IDW Media.
In the previous week, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment had 5 more articles in the media than IDW Media. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment and 2 mentions for IDW Media. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat IDW Media's score of -0.03 indicating that IDW Media is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment received 198 more outperform votes than IDW Media when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave IDW Media an outperform vote while only 67.11% of users gave Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment an outperform vote.
IDW Media has a net margin of -15.19% compared to IDW Media's net margin of -212.85%. IDW Media's return on equity of 0.00% beat Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment's return on equity.
IDW Media has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment. IDW Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDW Media has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
7.4% of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.0% of IDW Media shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.9% of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.5% of IDW Media shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment beats IDW Media on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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