SPIR vs. ATUS, GTN.A, CABO, GTN, WOW, ATEX, AREN, IHRT, TSAT, and SSP
Should you be buying Spire Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spire Global include Altice USA (ATUS), Gray Media (GTN.A), Cable One (CABO), Gray Media (GTN), WideOpenWest (WOW), Anterix (ATEX), The Arena Group (AREN), iHeartMedia (IHRT), Telesat (TSAT), and E.W. Scripps (SSP). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
Spire Global vs. Its Competitors
Spire Global (NYSE:SPIR) and Altice USA (NYSE:ATUS) are both small-cap communication companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Spire Global presently has a consensus price target of $18.20, indicating a potential upside of 107.41%. Altice USA has a consensus price target of $3.05, indicating a potential upside of 30.06%. Given Spire Global's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Spire Global is more favorable than Altice USA.
Spire Global has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its share price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altice USA has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
20.0% of Spire Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.9% of Altice USA shares are held by institutional investors. 14.7% of Spire Global shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.6% of Altice USA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Spire Global has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Altice USA. Altice USA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Altice USA has a net margin of -3.07% compared to Spire Global's net margin of -98.42%. Altice USA's return on equity of 0.00% beat Spire Global's return on equity.
In the previous week, Spire Global had 5 more articles in the media than Altice USA. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Spire Global and 4 mentions for Altice USA. Altice USA's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Spire Global's score of 0.07 indicating that Altice USA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Spire Global and Altice USA tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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This page (NYSE:SPIR) was last updated on 8/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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