PSO vs. NWS, WBTN, GCI, LEE, WLYB, WLY, SCHL, FLUT, DKNG, and LULU
Should you be buying Pearson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pearson include News (NWS), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Gannett (GCI), Lee Enterprises (LEE), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Scholastic (SCHL), Flutter Entertainment (FLUT), DraftKings (DKNG), and Lululemon Athletica (LULU).
News (NASDAQ:NWS) and Pearson (NYSE:PSO) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
Pearson received 99 more outperform votes than News when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.68% of users gave News an outperform vote while only 48.26% of users gave Pearson an outperform vote.
14.6% of News shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Pearson shares are held by institutional investors. 13.7% of News shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Pearson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
News has a net margin of 2.09% compared to News' net margin of 0.00%. Pearson's return on equity of 4.28% beat News' return on equity.
News pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Pearson pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. News pays out 55.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Pearson has lower revenue, but higher earnings than News.
In the previous week, Pearson had 4 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Pearson and 4 mentions for News. Pearson's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat News' score of -0.02 indicating that News is being referred to more favorably in the media.
News has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pearson has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pearson has a consensus price target of $12.30, indicating a potential downside of 8.48%. Given News' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Pearson is more favorable than News.
Summary
News beats Pearson on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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