TEGNA (TGNA) Competitors

KT (NYSE:KT) and TEGNA (NYSE:TGNA) are both communication companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Do analysts rate KT or TGNA?

TEGNA has a consensus target price of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.47%. Given TEGNA's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TEGNA is more favorable than KT.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
KT	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.33
TEGNA	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75

Which has more risk & volatility, KT or TGNA?

KT has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TEGNA has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is KT or TGNA more profitable?

TEGNA has a net margin of 15.29% compared to KT's net margin of 2.37%. TEGNA's return on equity of 17.13% beat KT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
KT	2.37%	3.47%	1.52%
TEGNA	15.29%	17.13%	6.94%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in KT or TGNA?

18.9% of KT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of TEGNA shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of KT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of TEGNA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is KT or TGNA a better dividend stock?

KT pays an annual dividend of $0.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. TEGNA pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. KT pays out 75.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TEGNA pays out 17.6% 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. TEGNA has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, KT or TGNA?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
KT	$19.37B	0.55	$321.90M	$0.92	22.41
TEGNA	$3.10B	0.88	$599.82M	$2.84	5.99

Does the media refer more to KT or TGNA?

In the previous week, KT had 6 more articles in the media than TEGNA. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for KT and 7 mentions for TEGNA. TEGNA's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat KT's score of 0.51 indicating that TEGNA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
KT	8 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
TEGNA	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

TEGNA beats KT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.