Charge Enterprises (CRGE) Competitors

Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) and Charge Enterprises (NASDAQ:CRGE) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in GTN or CRGE?

Gray Television received 406 more outperform votes than Charge Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.88% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Charge Enterprises an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Gray Television	Outperform Votes 410 66.88%	Underperform Votes 203 33.12%
Charge Enterprises	Outperform Votes 4 66.67%	Underperform Votes 2 33.33%

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, GTN or CRGE?

Charge Enterprises has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gray Television. Charge Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gray Television, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gray Television	$3.64B	0.11	-$76M	$3.33	1.18
Charge Enterprises	$641.37M	0.24	-$30.35M	-$0.20	-3.51

Which has more risk and volatility, GTN or CRGE?

Gray Television has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Charge Enterprises has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend GTN or CRGE?

Gray Television presently has a consensus target price of $6.33, suggesting a potential upside of 61.77%. Given Gray Television's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Gray Television is more favorable than Charge Enterprises.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gray Television	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80
Charge Enterprises	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in GTN or CRGE?

78.6% of Gray Television shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.2% of Charge Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Gray Television shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.2% of Charge Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is GTN or CRGE more profitable?

Gray Television has a net margin of 5.69% compared to Charge Enterprises' net margin of -5.76%. Gray Television's return on equity of 9.60% beat Charge Enterprises' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gray Television	5.69%	9.60%	1.85%
Charge Enterprises	-5.76%	-136.79%	-20.11%

Does the media refer more to GTN or CRGE?

In the previous week, Gray Television had 5 more articles in the media than Charge Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Gray Television and 0 mentions for Charge Enterprises. Gray Television's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Charge Enterprises' score of 0.67 indicating that Gray Television is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Gray Television	Positive
Charge Enterprises	Positive

Summary

Gray Television beats Charge Enterprises on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.