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Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Competitors

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$10.69 +0.20 (+1.91%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:45 PM ET)

WBD vs. SPOT, CHT, TEF, VOD, TU, FOXA, FWONK, FOX, TME, and RCI

Should you be buying Warner Bros. Discovery stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Warner Bros. Discovery include Spotify Technology (SPOT), Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Telefónica (TEF), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), TELUS (TU), FOX (FOXA), Formula One Group (FWONK), FOX (FOX), Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), and Rogers Communications (RCI). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.

Warner Bros. Discovery vs.

Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) and Spotify Technology (NYSE:SPOT) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Warner Bros. Discovery presently has a consensus price target of $11.44, indicating a potential upside of 7.02%. Spotify Technology has a consensus price target of $429.96, indicating a potential downside of 6.71%. Given Warner Bros. Discovery's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Warner Bros. Discovery is more favorable than Spotify Technology.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Warner Bros. Discovery
0 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.45
Spotify Technology
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
22 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

Spotify Technology received 344 more outperform votes than Warner Bros. Discovery when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.09% of users gave Spotify Technology an outperform vote while only 44.26% of users gave Warner Bros. Discovery an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Warner Bros. DiscoveryOutperform Votes
54
44.26%
Underperform Votes
68
55.74%
Spotify TechnologyOutperform Votes
398
62.09%
Underperform Votes
243
37.91%

Warner Bros. Discovery has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spotify Technology has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Warner Bros. Discovery had 29 more articles in the media than Spotify Technology. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Warner Bros. Discovery and 16 mentions for Spotify Technology. Spotify Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Warner Bros. Discovery's score of 0.28 indicating that Spotify Technology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Warner Bros. Discovery
14 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
26 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Spotify Technology
7 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Spotify Technology has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Warner Bros. Discovery. Warner Bros. Discovery is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spotify Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Warner Bros. Discovery$39.58B0.66-$3.13B-$4.58-2.33
Spotify Technology$15.10B6.07-$575.78M$3.68125.24

60.0% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.1% of Spotify Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Spotify Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Spotify Technology has a net margin of 4.66% compared to Warner Bros. Discovery's net margin of -28.34%. Spotify Technology's return on equity of 19.07% beat Warner Bros. Discovery's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Warner Bros. Discovery-28.34% -27.56% -9.82%
Spotify Technology 4.66%19.07%7.37%

Summary

Spotify Technology beats Warner Bros. Discovery on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WBD vs. The Competition

MetricWarner Bros. DiscoveryCable & other pay television services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$26.22B$12.96B$8.38B$9.07B
Dividend YieldN/A3.34%2.81%4.22%
P/E Ratio-2.339.6918.3317.19
Price / Sales0.661.8015.50116.80
Price / Cash1.264.5433.4537.86
Price / Book0.561.665.564.78
Net Income-$3.13B$466.29M$267.23M$225.60M
7 Day Performance-11.43%-4.78%-2.06%-1.24%
1 Month Performance3.99%-1.83%-0.12%3.36%
1 Year Performance-6.96%-13.57%10.21%16.58%

Warner Bros. Discovery Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery
2.4283 of 5 stars
$10.69
+1.9%
$11.44
+7.0%
-8.3%$26.22B$39.58B-2.3335,300Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
SPOT
Spotify Technology
3.7139 of 5 stars
$485.77
+0.5%
$429.96
-11.5%
+144.3%$96.69B$14.34B132.569,123
CHT
Chunghwa Telecom
1.5857 of 5 stars
$38.15
-0.1%
N/A+0.3%$29.59B$225.21B26.1332,383Positive News
TEF
Telefónica
1.013 of 5 stars
$4.40
-0.5%
N/A+2.0%$24.95B$43.99B-17.00104,142
VOD
Vodafone Group Public
4.4368 of 5 stars
$8.58
-1.3%
N/A-0.8%$22.12B$39.85B0.0093,000Options Volume
TU
TELUS
3.1571 of 5 stars
$14.55
flat
$26.00
+78.7%
-21.0%$21.83B$14.90B30.96106,400
FOXA
FOX
2.7351 of 5 stars
$47.20
+0.3%
$44.00
-6.8%
+68.2%$21.56B$13.98B11.5110,200Analyst Downgrade
FWONK
Formula One Group
1.1273 of 5 stars
$95.83
+0.8%
$88.25
-7.9%
+45.7%$21.30B$3.22B82.696,800Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
FOX
FOX
3.1596 of 5 stars
$44.82
+0.2%
N/A+69.9%$20.47B$13.98B10.9310,200
TME
Tencent Music Entertainment Group
4.2818 of 5 stars
$11.36
-5.2%
$13.28
+16.9%
+39.4%$19.49B$3.91B22.195,185Positive News
Gap Down
RCI
Rogers Communications
4.796 of 5 stars
$32.52
-2.6%
$61.75
+89.9%
-33.2%$17.38B$20.46B15.9726,000

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This page (NASDAQ:WBD) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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