UONEK vs. TSQ, IHRT, SGA, UONE, CMLS, BBGI, SALM, SPOT, TME, and SIRI
Should you be buying Urban One stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urban One include Townsquare Media (TSQ), iHeartMedia (IHRT), Saga Communications (SGA), Urban One (UONE), Cumulus Media (CMLS), Beasley Broadcast Group (BBGI), Salem Media Group (SALM), Spotify Technology (SPOT), Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), and Sirius XM (SIRI). These companies are all part of the "radio broadcasting stations" industry.
Townsquare Media (NYSE:TSQ) and Urban One (NASDAQ:UONEK) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Urban One has a net margin of 2.84% compared to Urban One's net margin of -9.19%. Urban One's return on equity of 98.45% beat Townsquare Media's return on equity.
Townsquare Media presently has a consensus price target of $16.83, suggesting a potential upside of 52.89%. Given Urban One's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Townsquare Media is more favorable than Urban One.
71.7% of Townsquare Media shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.7% of Urban One shares are held by institutional investors. 30.5% of Townsquare Media shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 50.5% of Urban One 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.
Townsquare Media has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban One has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Townsquare Media had 7 more articles in the media than Urban One. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Townsquare Media and 2 mentions for Urban One. Urban One's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Townsquare Media's score of 0.15 indicating that Townsquare Media is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Townsquare Media received 161 more outperform votes than Urban One when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.75% of users gave Townsquare Media an outperform vote while only 62.16% of users gave Urban One an outperform vote.
Urban One has higher revenue and earnings than Townsquare Media. Townsquare Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Urban One, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Townsquare Media beats Urban One on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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