TOON vs. CURI, IMAQ, GAIA, JRSH, RDI, COE, SOND, AGAE, SNAL, and ANGH
Should you be buying Kartoon Studios stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kartoon Studios include CuriosityStream (CURI), International Media Acquisition (IMAQ), Gaia (GAIA), Jerash Holdings (US) (JRSH), Reading International (RDI), 51Talk Online Education Group (COE), Sonder (SOND), Allied Gaming & Entertainment (AGAE), Snail (SNAL), and Anghami (ANGH). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Kartoon Studios (NASDAQ:TOON) and CuriosityStream (NASDAQ:CURI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk and profitability.
CuriosityStream received 31 more outperform votes than Kartoon Studios when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.62% of users gave CuriosityStream an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Kartoon Studios an outperform vote.
8.6% of Kartoon Studios shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.8% of CuriosityStream shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Kartoon Studios shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 55.4% of CuriosityStream shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Kartoon Studios presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 843.40%. CuriosityStream has a consensus target price of $1.35, indicating a potential upside of 29.81%. Given Kartoon Studios' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Kartoon Studios is more favorable than CuriosityStream.
CuriosityStream has a net margin of -81.73% compared to Kartoon Studios' net margin of -164.98%. CuriosityStream's return on equity of -34.10% beat Kartoon Studios' return on equity.
CuriosityStream has higher revenue and earnings than Kartoon Studios. CuriosityStream is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kartoon Studios, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CuriosityStream had 2 more articles in the media than Kartoon Studios. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for CuriosityStream and 3 mentions for Kartoon Studios. CuriosityStream's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Kartoon Studios' score of -0.86 indicating that CuriosityStream is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kartoon Studios has a beta of 2.61, meaning that its stock price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CuriosityStream has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CuriosityStream beats Kartoon Studios on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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