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$6.79 -0.24 (-3.41%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

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 stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.

39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.2% of DallasNews shares are held by institutional investors. 11.4% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of DallasNews shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DallasNews has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Lee Enterprises had 2 more articles in the media than DallasNews. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lee Enterprises and 0 mentions for DallasNews. Lee Enterprises' average media sentiment score of -0.33 beat DallasNews' score of -1.00 indicating that Lee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Lee Enterprises Neutral
DallasNews Negative

Lee Enterprises has a net margin of -4.23% compared to DallasNews' net margin of -4.71%. Lee Enterprises' return on equity of -325.44% beat DallasNews' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lee Enterprises-4.23% -325.44% -3.81%
DallasNews -4.71%-330.08%-9.95%

DallasNews has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lee Enterprises$611.38M0.12-$25.84M-$4.36-2.79
DallasNews$139.70M0.26-$7.11M-$1.12-6.06

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%

Summary

Lee Enterprises beats DallasNews on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DALN vs. The Competition

MetricDallasNewsNewspapers IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$36.33M$6.13B$15.38B$9.14B
Dividend YieldN/A0.80%2.91%4.02%
P/E Ratio-6.0626.5521.4417.36
Price / Sales0.262.443.8477.11
Price / CashN/A19.8616.8035.97
Price / Book12.354.275.984.79
Net Income-$7.11M$111.68M$600.74M$225.00M
7 Day Performance-3.69%-2.87%2.01%2.62%
1 Month Performance2.26%-4.73%1.92%3.81%
1 Year Performance51.22%40.27%7.06%20.10%

DallasNews Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DALN
DallasNews
0.1071 of 5 stars
$6.79
-3.4%
N/A+51.2%$36.33M$139.70M-6.06660Positive News
LEE
Lee Enterprises
N/A$14.37
+2.4%
N/A+19.8%$88.95M$611.38M-3.303,342
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.1982 of 5 stars
$1.10
-7.6%
N/A-48.1%$3.14M$8.49M0.00N/APositive News
Gap Down
SOBR
SOBR Safe
0.3039 of 5 stars
$0.83
-12.2%
N/A+141.8%$761,000.00$183,859.00-0.029Gap Down
NWS
News
0.9964 of 5 stars
$30.25
+1.2%
N/A+21.6%$17.20B$10.16B48.7925,500
PSO
Pearson
1.3005 of 5 stars
$15.45
-1.8%
N/A+30.2%$10.29B$3.55B17.5618,360Gap Down
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
0.4554 of 5 stars
$42.21
+0.3%
N/A+34.5%$2.28B$1.76B-46.386,400
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
1.3573 of 5 stars
$41.61
-0.8%
N/A+35.8%$2.25B$1.76B-45.739,500High Trading Volume
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
1.9028 of 5 stars
$12.65
-3.1%
$26.67
+110.8%
N/A$1.62B$1.33B0.001,854Positive News
GCI
Gannett
3.0065 of 5 stars
$4.96
-0.4%
$5.55
+11.9%
+119.6%$731.16M$2.56B-6.1210,000Gap Up
NWSA
News
4.0713 of 5 stars
$27.44
+1.7%
$38.50
+40.3%
+14.1%$15.60B$10.16B44.2625,500Analyst Downgrade

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