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$4.93 -0.90 (-15.44%)
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LEE vs. DALN, VSME, SOBR, NWS, PSO, WLYB, WLY, WBTN, GCI, and ISPR

Should you be buying Lee Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lee Enterprises include DallasNews (DALN), VS MEDIA (VSME), SOBR Safe (SOBR), News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Gannett (GCI), and Ispire Technology (ISPR).

Lee Enterprises vs. Its Competitors

Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) and DallasNews (NASDAQ:DALN) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.2% of DallasNews shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of DallasNews shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, DallasNews had 4 more articles in the media than Lee Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for DallasNews and 0 mentions for Lee Enterprises. DallasNews' average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Lee Enterprises' score of 0.07 indicating that DallasNews is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Lee Enterprises Neutral
DallasNews Neutral

DallasNews has a net margin of 24.13% compared to Lee Enterprises' net margin of -7.21%. DallasNews' return on equity of 265.86% beat Lee Enterprises' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lee Enterprises-7.21% -325.44% -6.55%
DallasNews 24.13%265.86%43.67%

DallasNews has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lee Enterprises. Lee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DallasNews, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lee Enterprises$591.09M0.05-$25.84M-$7.29-0.68
DallasNews$125.39M0.63$130K$5.562.64

Lee Enterprises has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DallasNews has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

DallasNews beats Lee Enterprises on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LEE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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LEE vs. The Competition

MetricLee EnterprisesNewspapers IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$30.67M$30.67M$16.30B$21.12B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A3.14%3.60%
P/E Ratio-0.68N/A16.7927.40
Price / Sales0.050.0546.2160.38
Price / Cash38.5238.5215.0222.92
Price / Book-1.26N/A6.134.69
Net Income-$25.84M-$25.84M$691.82M$995.51M
7 Day Performance-29.17%-29.17%1.15%1.64%
1 Month Performance-28.34%-28.34%4.43%5.92%
1 Year Performance-50.80%-50.80%1.21%11.50%

Lee Enterprises Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LEE
Lee Enterprises
0.6383 of 5 stars
$4.93
-15.4%
N/A-42.9%$30.67M$591.09M-0.684,360Gap Up
High Trading Volume
DALN
DallasNews
1.3138 of 5 stars
$13.66
+0.2%
N/A+356.9%$73.11M$123.41M2.46660Upcoming Earnings
High Trading Volume
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.3868 of 5 stars
$1.10
+3.8%
N/A-24.7%$8.79M$8.25M0.00N/APositive News
SOBR
SOBR Safe
1.5118 of 5 stars
$4.34
-8.2%
N/A-97.5%$391K$210K-0.019Positive News
NWS
News
0.3251 of 5 stars
$34.55
+0.8%
N/A+18.9%$19.56B$10.09B40.1725,500
PSO
Pearson
4.1084 of 5 stars
$14.32
-0.2%
$18.00
+25.7%
+8.5%$9.47B$3.55B15.2317,116Upcoming Earnings
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
1.5424 of 5 stars
$43.49
-1.5%
N/A-14.6%$2.32B$1.68B28.439,500News Coverage
Gap Down
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
3.0172 of 5 stars
$42.46
-0.2%
N/A-15.5%$2.27B$1.68B27.755,200Positive News
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
3.1602 of 5 stars
$9.35
-4.7%
$14.36
+53.6%
-51.0%$1.22B$1.35B-6.491,800News Coverage
Positive News
GCI
Gannett
3.5544 of 5 stars
$3.81
-2.4%
$5.55
+45.9%
-23.8%$557.20M$2.51B380.508,900News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
ISPR
Ispire Technology
2.5546 of 5 stars
$2.93
+3.5%
$7.50
+156.0%
-57.9%$167.44M$144.70M-5.9869Positive News

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