WOW vs. ADEA, LILAK, LILA, ATUS, TV, GTN.A, ATEX, GTN, SPIR, and SSP
Should you be buying WideOpenWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WideOpenWest include Adeia (ADEA), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Altice USA (ATUS), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Gray Television (GTN.A), Anterix (ATEX), Gray Television (GTN), Spire Global (SPIR), and E.W. Scripps (SSP). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
WideOpenWest vs.
WideOpenWest (NYSE:WOW) and Adeia (NASDAQ:ADEA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
In the previous week, Adeia had 1 more articles in the media than WideOpenWest. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Adeia and 1 mentions for WideOpenWest. Adeia's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat WideOpenWest's score of 0.00 indicating that Adeia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.8% of WideOpenWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Adeia shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of WideOpenWest shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Adeia shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
WideOpenWest has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adeia has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Adeia has a net margin of 17.19% compared to WideOpenWest's net margin of -14.17%. Adeia's return on equity of 32.81% beat WideOpenWest's return on equity.
Adeia has lower revenue, but higher earnings than WideOpenWest. WideOpenWest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adeia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WideOpenWest currently has a consensus price target of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 69.49%. Adeia has a consensus price target of $18.33, suggesting a potential upside of 47.84%. Given WideOpenWest's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe WideOpenWest is more favorable than Adeia.
WideOpenWest received 427 more outperform votes than Adeia when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 91.30% of users gave Adeia an outperform vote while only 60.38% of users gave WideOpenWest an outperform vote.
Summary
Adeia beats WideOpenWest on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:WOW) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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