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NCMI vs. CCO, GOOG, OMC, LAMR, IPG, IAS, STGW, NEXN, GCI, and TTGT

Should you be buying National CineMedia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National CineMedia include Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), Alphabet (GOOG), Omnicom Group (OMC), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Integral Ad Science (IAS), Stagwell (STGW), Nexxen International (NEXN), Gannett (GCI), and TechTarget (TTGT).

National CineMedia vs. Its Competitors

National CineMedia (NASDAQ:NCMI) and Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE:CCO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Clear Channel Outdoor has a net margin of -1.44% compared to National CineMedia's net margin of -7.68%. Clear Channel Outdoor's return on equity of 0.00% beat National CineMedia's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
National CineMedia-7.68% -2.83% -2.07%
Clear Channel Outdoor -1.44%N/A -2.71%

69.5% of National CineMedia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Clear Channel Outdoor shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of National CineMedia shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Clear Channel Outdoor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

National CineMedia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Clear Channel Outdoor. National CineMedia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clear Channel Outdoor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
National CineMedia$240.80M1.96-$22.30M-$0.19-26.39
Clear Channel Outdoor$1.51B0.41-$179.25M-$0.06-20.58

National CineMedia has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clear Channel Outdoor has a beta of 2.58, suggesting that its stock price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, National CineMedia had 8 more articles in the media than Clear Channel Outdoor. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for National CineMedia and 0 mentions for Clear Channel Outdoor. Clear Channel Outdoor's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat National CineMedia's score of 0.07 indicating that Clear Channel Outdoor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
National CineMedia Neutral
Clear Channel Outdoor Neutral

National CineMedia presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 39.61%. Clear Channel Outdoor has a consensus price target of $2.04, indicating a potential upside of 64.98%. Given Clear Channel Outdoor's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Clear Channel Outdoor is more favorable than National CineMedia.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
National CineMedia
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Clear Channel Outdoor
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

Summary

Clear Channel Outdoor beats National CineMedia on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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NCMI vs. The Competition

MetricNational CineMediaADVERTISING/MKTG SVCS IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$470.09M$1.74B$15.02B$9.30B
Dividend Yield2.45%3.24%2.73%4.03%
P/E Ratio-26.2417.5427.9919.67
Price / Sales1.967,133.55567.93185.66
Price / Cash12.546.0326.2657.93
Price / Book1.162.156.405.64
Net Income-$22.30M$122.61M$196.38M$257.73M
7 Day Performance4.24%7.91%0.04%0.21%
1 Month Performance-6.28%20.35%4.84%8.47%
1 Year Performance-0.71%-34.79%21.51%13.93%

National CineMedia Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NCMI
National CineMedia
3.1721 of 5 stars
$5.01
+5.1%
$7.00
+39.6%
-2.9%$470.09M$240.80M-26.24350
CCO
Clear Channel Outdoor
2.3132 of 5 stars
$1.19
-4.4%
$2.04
+71.9%
-33.6%$615.93M$1.51B-19.754,100
GOOG
Alphabet
4.8592 of 5 stars
$177.56
-1.7%
$206.38
+16.2%
-2.7%$2.19T$350.02B19.79190,200Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
OMC
Omnicom Group
4.7027 of 5 stars
$73.82
-1.2%
$96.43
+30.6%
-24.3%$14.58B$15.69B10.1074,900Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
LAMR
Lamar Advertising
2.4175 of 5 stars
$122.08
-1.7%
$134.00
+9.8%
+5.0%$12.72B$2.21B29.633,500
IPG
Interpublic Group of Companies
4.6651 of 5 stars
$25.14
-0.9%
$32.72
+30.2%
-18.0%$9.38B$10.69B19.1953,300Upcoming Earnings
IAS
Integral Ad Science
3.2848 of 5 stars
$8.38
-1.8%
$13.55
+61.7%
-24.0%$1.41B$549.64M28.90760News Coverage
STGW
Stagwell
2.5371 of 5 stars
$4.53
-0.7%
$9.13
+101.4%
-34.5%$1.22B$2.84B-453.0014,607
NEXN
Nexxen International
4.3178 of 5 stars
$10.17
-1.0%
$15.33
+50.8%
-17.8%$651.29M$365.48M19.94895News Coverage
High Trading Volume
GCI
Gannett
3.7414 of 5 stars
$3.64
-4.5%
$5.55
+52.5%
-24.5%$557.92M$2.51B364.008,900Positive News
TTGT
TechTarget
3.4804 of 5 stars
$6.63
-4.2%
$19.33
+191.6%
-77.7%$494.70M$284.90M-15.792,100Earnings Report
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:NCMI) was last updated on 7/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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