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$29.15 +0.35 (+1.22%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

NWSA vs. LYV, CNK, RDI, DIS, NWS, NYT, DJCO, GCI, LEE, and DALN

Should you be buying News stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of News include Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Cinemark (CNK), Reading International (RDI), Walt Disney (DIS), News (NWS), New York Times (NYT), Daily Journal (DJCO), Gannett (GCI), Lee Enterprises (LEE), and DallasNews (DALN).

News vs.

News (NASDAQ:NWSA) and Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

News currently has a consensus price target of $38.67, suggesting a potential upside of 32.65%. Live Nation Entertainment has a consensus price target of $141.53, suggesting a potential upside of 3.68%. Given News' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe News is more favorable than Live Nation Entertainment.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
News
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Live Nation Entertainment
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.94

News has a net margin of 3.49% compared to Live Nation Entertainment's net margin of 2.11%. Live Nation Entertainment's return on equity of 77.62% beat News' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
News3.49% 4.76% 2.58%
Live Nation Entertainment 2.11%77.62%2.48%

News received 10 more outperform votes than Live Nation Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.01% of users gave Live Nation Entertainment an outperform vote while only 73.51% of users gave News an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
NewsOutperform Votes
666
73.51%
Underperform Votes
240
26.49%
Live Nation EntertainmentOutperform Votes
656
76.01%
Underperform Votes
207
23.99%

Live Nation Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than News. News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Live Nation Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
News$10.09B1.64$266M$0.6247.02
Live Nation Entertainment$22.75B1.39$315.84M$0.94145.22

67.0% of News shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 13.6% of News shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Live Nation Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

News has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Live Nation Entertainment has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Live Nation Entertainment had 18 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Live Nation Entertainment and 7 mentions for News. Live Nation Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat News' score of 0.15 indicating that Live Nation Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
News
0 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Live Nation Entertainment
11 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Live Nation Entertainment beats News on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NWSA vs. The Competition

MetricNewsNewspapers IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$16.38B$6.37B$8.31B$8.87B
Dividend Yield0.69%0.77%2.76%4.06%
P/E Ratio47.0220.8815.6614.18
Price / Sales1.642.637.7689.42
Price / Cash14.4137.3615.4232.79
Price / Book1.814.164.475.12
Net Income$266M$106.52M$265.65M$225.99M
7 Day Performance0.14%-0.43%-1.56%-1.32%
1 Month Performance10.71%5.91%-2.08%0.60%
1 Year Performance35.90%59.55%15.34%26.23%

News Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NWSA
News
4.439 of 5 stars
$29.15
+1.2%
$38.67
+32.6%
+37.0%$16.38B$10.09B47.0223,900
LYV
Live Nation Entertainment
4.2312 of 5 stars
$136.51
+1.5%
$141.53
+3.7%
+52.0%$31.24B$22.75B145.2231,700Analyst Forecast
CNK
Cinemark
3.4646 of 5 stars
$32.79
-2.0%
$30.80
-6.1%
+131.6%$4.09B$2.87B21.1517,500Positive News
RDI
Reading International
2.5468 of 5 stars
$1.25
-1.6%
$2.40
+92.0%
-29.8%$28.48M$222.74M0.002,025Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
DIS
Walt Disney
4.6365 of 5 stars
$114.27
+1.6%
$123.83
+8.4%
+20.2%$206.94B$91.36B42.17233,000Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
NWS
News
0.2674 of 5 stars
$31.69
-0.3%
N/A+42.9%$18.07B$10.09B51.1123,900News Coverage
High Trading Volume
NYT
New York Times
3.6404 of 5 stars
$52.00
-0.2%
$54.83
+5.4%
+14.5%$8.54B$2.43B30.775,900
DJCO
Daily Journal
N/A$561.62
+3.4%
N/A+74.6%$748.08M$71.61M17.23350
GCI
Gannett
2.2574 of 5 stars
$5.00
+0.8%
$5.37
+7.3%
+160.4%$731.16M$2.66B0.0010,000Positive News
LEE
Lee Enterprises
N/A$16.09
+3.7%
N/A+56.4%$96.08M$691.14M0.003,342
DALN
DallasNews
0.1683 of 5 stars
$5.35
-12.4%
N/A+40.1%$28.63M$128.29M-4.78660High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:NWSA) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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