NYT vs. MORN, SSTK, DJCO, SCHL, VALU, MKTW, TRI, NWS, NWSA, and GCI
Should you be buying New York Times stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Times include Morningstar (MORN), Shutterstock (SSTK), Daily Journal (DJCO), Scholastic (SCHL), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), Thomson Reuters (TRI), News (NWS), News (NWSA), and Gannett (GCI).
New York Times vs.
New York Times (NYSE:NYT) and Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, New York Times had 134 more articles in the media than Morningstar. MarketBeat recorded 169 mentions for New York Times and 35 mentions for Morningstar. Morningstar's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat New York Times' score of 0.05 indicating that Morningstar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New York Times presently has a consensus price target of $56.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.10%. Morningstar has a consensus price target of $361.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.93%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Morningstar is more favorable than New York Times.
New York Times has higher revenue and earnings than Morningstar. New York Times is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morningstar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.4% of New York Times shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Morningstar shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of New York Times shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 36.2% of Morningstar shares are held 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.
Morningstar has a net margin of 14.69% compared to New York Times' net margin of 11.36%. Morningstar's return on equity of 23.28% beat New York Times' return on equity.
New York Times has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morningstar has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
New York Times pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. New York Times pays out 39.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morningstar pays out 20.4% 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. New York Times has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Morningstar has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
New York Times received 8 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.95% of users gave New York Times an outperform vote while only 55.28% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote.
Summary
Morningstar beats New York Times on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NYT) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff