GTN.A vs. TGNA, TV, SBGI, GTN, SSP, EVC, FENG, FOXA, FOX, and PARAA
Should you be buying Gray Television stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gray Television include TEGNA (TGNA), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Sinclair (SBGI), Gray Television (GTN), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Entravision Communications (EVC), Phoenix New Media (FENG), FOX (FOXA), FOX (FOX), and Paramount Global (PARAA). These companies are all part of the "television broadcasting stations" industry.
Gray Television (NYSE:GTN.A) and TEGNA (NYSE:TGNA) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
TEGNA has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gray Television. Gray Television is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TEGNA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TEGNA received 303 more outperform votes than Gray Television when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.82% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote while only 62.78% of users gave TEGNA an outperform vote.
Gray Television has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TEGNA has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TEGNA has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.02%. Given TEGNA's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TEGNA is more favorable than Gray Television.
TEGNA has a net margin of 19.48% compared to Gray Television's net margin of 1.30%. TEGNA's return on equity of 11.86% beat Gray Television's return on equity.
In the previous week, TEGNA had 2 more articles in the media than Gray Television. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for TEGNA and 2 mentions for Gray Television. TEGNA's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Gray Television's score of 0.55 indicating that TEGNA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
0.3% of Gray Television shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of TEGNA shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of Gray Television shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of TEGNA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. TEGNA pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Gray Television pays out -266.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TEGNA pays out 16.1% 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. Gray Television is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
TEGNA beats Gray Television on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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