DALN vs. LEE, VSME, SOBR, TRI, NWS, PSO, MH, WLYB, WLY, and WBTN
Should you be buying DallasNews stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DallasNews include Lee Enterprises (LEE), VS MEDIA (VSME), SOBR Safe (SOBR), Thomson Reuters (TRI), News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), McGraw Hill (MH), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), and WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN). These companies are all part of the "printing and publishing" industry.
DallasNews vs. Its Competitors
DallasNews (NASDAQ:DALN) and Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
27.2% of DallasNews shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of DallasNews shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
DallasNews has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lee Enterprises. DallasNews is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lee Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DallasNews has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lee Enterprises has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
DallasNews has a net margin of -4.26% compared to Lee Enterprises' net margin of -7.21%. DallasNews' return on equity of 150.61% beat Lee Enterprises' return on equity.
In the previous week, DallasNews had 2 more articles in the media than Lee Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for DallasNews and 1 mentions for Lee Enterprises. Lee Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat DallasNews' score of 0.36 indicating that Lee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
DallasNews beats Lee Enterprises on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:DALN) was last updated on 9/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
