KODK vs. IMAX, GPRO, LILA, VRNT, VIAV, SMR, PLAB, GRND, CTS, and IONQ
Should you be buying Eastman Kodak stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastman Kodak include IMAX (IMAX), GoPro (GPRO), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Verint Systems (VRNT), Viavi Solutions (VIAV), NuScale Power (SMR), Photronics (PLAB), Grindr (GRND), CTS (CTS), and IonQ (IONQ).
IMAX (NYSE:IMAX) and Eastman Kodak (NYSE:KODK) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
IMAX presently has a consensus price target of $20.57, suggesting a potential upside of 36.05%. Given Eastman Kodak's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe IMAX is more favorable than Eastman Kodak.
IMAX received 817 more outperform votes than Eastman Kodak when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.75% of users gave IMAX an outperform vote while only 53.75% of users gave Eastman Kodak an outperform vote.
In the previous week, IMAX had 12 more articles in the media than Eastman Kodak. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for IMAX and 1 mentions for Eastman Kodak. IMAX's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Eastman Kodak's score of 0.58 indicating that Eastman Kodak is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
93.5% of IMAX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.7% of Eastman Kodak shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.1% of IMAX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.9% of Eastman Kodak shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eastman Kodak has higher revenue and earnings than IMAX. Eastman Kodak is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IMAX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IMAX has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastman Kodak has a beta of 3.57, indicating that its share price is 257% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IMAX has a net margin of 7.13% compared to IMAX's net margin of 6.80%. IMAX's return on equity of 10.61% beat Eastman Kodak's return on equity.
Summary
IMAX beats Eastman Kodak on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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