EVC vs. SSP, GTN, GTN.A, KNDI, VIRC, JAKK, HOFT, TSQ, GMGI, and ESCA
Should you be buying Entravision Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Entravision Communications include E.W. Scripps (SSP), Gray Television (GTN), Gray Television (GTN.A), Kandi Technologies Group (KNDI), Virco Mfg. (VIRC), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), Townsquare Media (TSQ), Golden Matrix Group (GMGI), and Escalade (ESCA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
E.W. Scripps (NASDAQ:SSP) and Entravision Communications (NYSE:EVC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
67.8% of E.W. Scripps shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of Entravision Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of E.W. Scripps shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Entravision Communications shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Entravision Communications received 283 more outperform votes than E.W. Scripps when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.46% of users gave Entravision Communications an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave E.W. Scripps an outperform vote.
E.W. Scripps has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Entravision Communications has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Entravision Communications has a net margin of -5.79% compared to Entravision Communications' net margin of -39.87%. Entravision Communications' return on equity of 3.17% beat E.W. Scripps' return on equity.
In the previous week, E.W. Scripps had 15 more articles in the media than Entravision Communications. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for E.W. Scripps and 3 mentions for Entravision Communications. E.W. Scripps' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Entravision Communications' score of 0.45 indicating that Entravision Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
E.W. Scripps currently has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 202.55%. Given Entravision Communications' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe E.W. Scripps is more favorable than Entravision Communications.
Entravision Communications has lower revenue, but higher earnings than E.W. Scripps. Entravision Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than E.W. Scripps, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Entravision Communications beats E.W. Scripps on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding EVC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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