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DALN vs. LEE, VSME, SOBR, NWS, PSO, WLY, WLYB, WBTN, GCI, and NWSA

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), News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Gannett (GCI), and News (NWSA).

DallasNews vs.

Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) and DallasNews (NASDAQ:DALN) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.

In the previous week, Lee Enterprises had 5 more articles in the media than DallasNews. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lee Enterprises and 1 mentions for DallasNews. DallasNews' average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Lee Enterprises' score of 0.07 indicating that DallasNews is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Lee Enterprises Neutral
DallasNews Neutral

39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.2% of DallasNews shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.8% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of DallasNews shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DallasNews has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lee Enterprises$600.26M0.11-$25.84M-$7.28-1.41
DallasNews$125.39M0.20-$7.11M$0.03156.67

Lee Enterprises received 211 more outperform votes than DallasNews when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.43% of users gave Lee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave DallasNews an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Lee EnterprisesOutperform Votes
211
62.43%
Underperform Votes
127
37.57%
DallasNewsOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
2
100.00%

DallasNews has a net margin of -4.71% compared to Lee Enterprises' net margin of -7.21%. Lee Enterprises' return on equity of -325.44% beat DallasNews' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lee Enterprises-7.21% -325.44% -6.55%
DallasNews -4.71%-330.08%-9.95%

Summary

Lee Enterprises beats DallasNews on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DALN vs. The Competition

MetricDallasNewsNewspapers IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$25.15M$5.85B$16.88B$7.83B
Dividend YieldN/A0.81%2.89%4.00%
P/E Ratio-4.2022.3416.1918.67
Price / Sales0.202.042.4191.01
Price / CashN/A17.1116.3934.64
Price / Book8.553.566.664.23
Net Income-$7.11M$120.46M$731.75M$247.15M
7 Day Performance-19.52%-4.09%-0.82%-2.17%
1 Month Performance-29.11%-9.00%-3.03%-5.68%
1 Year Performance23.04%7.80%-1.43%-0.74%

DallasNews Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DALN
DallasNews
0.3518 of 5 stars
$4.70
-5.6%
N/A+23.0%$25.15M$125.39M-4.20660
LEE
Lee Enterprises
N/A$10.50
+1.4%
N/A-22.7%$65.01M$600.26M-1.444,360Gap Up
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.9065 of 5 stars
$1.00
+1.9%
N/A-61.4%$2.85M$8.49M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
News Coverage
SOBR
SOBR Safe
1.0299 of 5 stars
$0.62
-3.4%
N/A+16.8%$590,000.00$183,859.00-0.019Short Interest ↓
NWS
News
0.4029 of 5 stars
$30.75
-0.1%
N/A+9.6%$17.45B$10.25B42.1225,500
PSO
Pearson
3.3504 of 5 stars
$15.68
+1.2%
$18.00
+14.8%
+21.4%$10.45B$3.55B16.6821,400Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
1.5246 of 5 stars
$45.14
+1.6%
N/A+16.6%$2.43B$1.70B-49.606,400Dividend Announcement
Positive News
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
1.2656 of 5 stars
$44.91
+0.6%
N/A+17.7%$2.43B$1.70B-49.359,500Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
2.9858 of 5 stars
$8.96
+2.6%
$17.33
+93.5%
N/A$1.15B$1.35B19.481,854Positive News
GCI
Gannett
3.48 of 5 stars
$3.16
+3.1%
$5.55
+75.9%
+20.9%$464.95M$2.51B-5.8414,200Positive News
NWSA
News
3.7623 of 5 stars
$27.30
+1.0%
$39.25
+43.8%
+1.6%$15.49B$10.25B37.4025,500News Coverage
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This page (NASDAQ:DALN) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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