FOXA vs. FOX, PARAA, PARA, NXST, IHG, CCL, H, NWS, EDU, and WMG
Should you be buying FOX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FOX include FOX (FOX), Paramount Global (PARAA), Paramount Global (PARA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Hyatt Hotels (H), News (NWS), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), and Warner Music Group (WMG). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
FOX (NASDAQ:FOX) and FOX (NASDAQ:FOXA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking and risk.
FOX pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. FOX pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. FOX pays out 16.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FOX pays out 16.3% 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. FOX has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and FOX has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, FOX had 74 more articles in the media than FOX. MarketBeat recorded 97 mentions for FOX and 23 mentions for FOX. FOX's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat FOX's score of 0.00 indicating that FOX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FOX has a consensus price target of $34.83, suggesting a potential upside of 6.04%. Given FOX's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe FOX is more favorable than FOX.
FOX received 597 more outperform votes than FOX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.20% of users gave FOX an outperform vote while only 62.61% of users gave FOX an outperform vote.
26.4% of FOX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.5% of FOX shares are held by institutional investors. 19.2% of FOX shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.8% of FOX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
FOX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FOX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FOX has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FOX has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
FOX beats FOX on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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