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Salem Media Group (SALM) Competitors

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$0.60 -0.06 (-8.94%)
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SALM vs. BBGI, FWONA, NXST, SBGI, EVC, SGA, UONE, UONEK, CMLS, and SPOT

Should you be buying Salem Media Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Salem Media Group include Beasley Broadcast Group (BBGI), Formula One Group (FWONA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), Sinclair (SBGI), Entravision Communications (EVC), Saga Communications (SGA), Urban One (UONE), Urban One (UONEK), Cumulus Media (CMLS), and Spotify Technology (SPOT).

Salem Media Group vs.

Beasley Broadcast Group (NASDAQ:BBGI) and Salem Media Group (NASDAQ:SALM) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Beasley Broadcast Group has a net margin of 1.07% compared to Salem Media Group's net margin of -3.80%. Beasley Broadcast Group's return on equity of -5.12% beat Salem Media Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Beasley Broadcast Group1.07% -5.12% -1.33%
Salem Media Group -3.80%-5.79%-1.62%

21.7% of Beasley Broadcast Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of Salem Media Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.2% of Beasley Broadcast Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 54.6% of Salem Media Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Salem Media Group has higher revenue and earnings than Beasley Broadcast Group. Salem Media Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beasley Broadcast Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Beasley Broadcast Group$247.11M0.05-$75.12M$1.674.77
Salem Media Group$261.57M0.06-$43.31M-$0.34-1.77

Beasley Broadcast Group has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Salem Media Group has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Salem Media Group received 33 more outperform votes than Beasley Broadcast Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.22% of users gave Salem Media Group an outperform vote while only 43.90% of users gave Beasley Broadcast Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Beasley Broadcast GroupOutperform Votes
205
43.90%
Underperform Votes
262
56.10%
Salem Media GroupOutperform Votes
238
47.22%
Underperform Votes
266
52.78%

In the previous week, Beasley Broadcast Group had 1 more articles in the media than Salem Media Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Beasley Broadcast Group and 0 mentions for Salem Media Group. Beasley Broadcast Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Salem Media Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Beasley Broadcast Group Neutral
Salem Media Group Neutral

Summary

Beasley Broadcast Group beats Salem Media Group on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SALM vs. The Competition

MetricSalem Media GroupRadio broadcasting stations IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$16.36M$10.80B$8.22B$8.70B
Dividend YieldN/A5.61%2.82%3.90%
P/E Ratio-1.7724.8014.4619.28
Price / Sales0.060.7710.14112.62
Price / Cash1.0110.4616.4234.58
Price / BookN/A4.344.564.50
Net Income-$43.31M-$137.08M$259.47M$246.40M
7 Day Performance-14.14%-3.62%-3.57%-3.67%
1 Month Performance-17.90%-3.00%-2.43%-2.92%
1 Year Performance90.79%-7.46%4.51%9.00%

Salem Media Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SALM
Salem Media Group
N/A$0.60
-8.9%
N/A+100.0%$16.36M$261.57M-1.771,340Gap Down
BBGI
Beasley Broadcast Group
0.8365 of 5 stars
$8.15
+4.4%
N/AN/A$12.52M$238.75M4.881,127News Coverage
FWONA
Formula One Group
0.7236 of 5 stars
$90.54
+0.3%
$82.33
-9.1%
+41.2%$22.52B$3.72B78.736,800Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
NXST
Nexstar Media Group
4.8412 of 5 stars
$150.59
+0.7%
$204.29
+35.7%
-8.8%$4.67B$5.22B8.7113,294Upcoming Earnings
SBGI
Sinclair
3.62 of 5 stars
$15.13
+4.3%
$20.10
+32.8%
+0.3%$1.00B$3.37B-4.587,300Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
EVC
Entravision Communications
1.1627 of 5 stars
$2.22
+0.7%
N/A-41.2%$199.32M$1.15B-1.791,657News Coverage
SGA
Saga Communications
4.4902 of 5 stars
$11.69
-2.8%
N/A-52.1%$73.19M$110.67M16.24570Positive News
UONE
Urban One
1.6492 of 5 stars
$1.37
-4.9%
N/A-56.7%$65.63M$452.89M-0.811,160Positive News
UONEK
Urban One
1.0429 of 5 stars
$0.77
-1.9%
N/A-75.3%$36.89M$452.89M-0.451,398Gap Up
CMLS
Cumulus Media
1.7953 of 5 stars
$0.88
+0.1%
$8.00
+808.1%
-81.5%$14.97M$829.80M-0.103,367Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Down
SPOT
Spotify Technology
4.5147 of 5 stars
$601.54
-1.0%
$529.43
-12.0%
+129.6%$119.74B$15.67B101.107,691Analyst Forecast
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:SALM) was last updated on 2/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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