WOW vs. ADEA, TV, ATUS, LILAK, LILA, CABO, GTN.A, ATEX, AREN, and GTN
Should you be buying WideOpenWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WideOpenWest include Adeia (ADEA), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Altice USA (ATUS), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Cable One (CABO), Gray Television (GTN.A), Anterix (ATEX), The Arena Group (AREN), and Gray Television (GTN). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
WideOpenWest vs.
Adeia (NASDAQ:ADEA) and WideOpenWest (NYSE:WOW) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Adeia has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WideOpenWest has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.4% of Adeia shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of WideOpenWest shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Adeia shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of WideOpenWest shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Adeia currently has a consensus target price of $17.33, suggesting a potential upside of 33.23%. WideOpenWest has a consensus target price of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 80.29%. Given WideOpenWest's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe WideOpenWest is more favorable than Adeia.
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.
In the previous week, Adeia had 3 more articles in the media than WideOpenWest. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Adeia and 3 mentions for WideOpenWest. Adeia's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat WideOpenWest's score of 0.88 indicating that Adeia is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Adeia has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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 received 425 more outperform votes than Adeia when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.00% 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 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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