PARAA vs. FOX, FOXA, PARA, NXST, POOL, NWSA, FWONA, SNA, EDU, and NWS Should you be buying Paramount Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paramount Global include FOX (FOX), FOX (FOXA), Paramount Global (PARA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), Pool (POOL), News (NWSA), Formula One Group (FWONA), Snap-on (SNA), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), and News (NWS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARAA ) and FOX (NASDAQ:FOX ) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability and dividends.
Paramount Global has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FOX has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
6.0% of Paramount Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.4% of FOX shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Paramount Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of FOX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Paramount Global pays an annual dividend of 0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. FOX pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Paramount Global pays out -133.3% 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 received 369 more outperform votes than Paramount Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.61% of users gave FOX an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Paramount Global an outperform vote.
In the previous week, FOX had 80 more articles in the media than Paramount Global. MarketBeat recorded 97 mentions for FOX and 17 mentions for Paramount Global. Paramount Global's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat FOX's score of 0.00 indicating that Paramount Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FOX has a net margin of 11.19% compared to Paramount Global's net margin of -0.15%. FOX's return on equity of 15.90% beat Paramount Global's return on equity.
FOX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Paramount Global. Paramount Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FOX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary FOX beats Paramount Global on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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