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WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN) Competitors

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$12.39 -0.51 (-3.95%)
(As of 05:45 PM ET)

WBTN vs. WLYB, WLY, GCI, LEE, DALN, VSME, NWS, PSO, TRI, and SATS

Should you be buying WEBTOON Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WEBTOON Entertainment include John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Gannett (GCI), Lee Enterprises (LEE), DallasNews (DALN), VS MEDIA (VSME), News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), Thomson Reuters (TRI), and EchoStar (SATS).

WEBTOON Entertainment vs.

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLYB) and WEBTOON Entertainment (NASDAQ:WBTN) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation and risk.

0.5% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by institutional investors. 29.7% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

WEBTOON Entertainment has a consensus price target of $26.83, suggesting a potential upside of 116.57%. Given WEBTOON Entertainment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe WEBTOON Entertainment is more favorable than John Wiley & Sons.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
John Wiley & Sons
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
WEBTOON Entertainment
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

WEBTOON Entertainment has a net margin of 0.00% compared to John Wiley & Sons' net margin of -2.82%. John Wiley & Sons' return on equity of 24.14% beat WEBTOON Entertainment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
John Wiley & Sons-2.82% 24.14% 6.67%
WEBTOON Entertainment N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, WEBTOON Entertainment had 4 more articles in the media than John Wiley & Sons. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for WEBTOON Entertainment and 2 mentions for John Wiley & Sons. John Wiley & Sons' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat WEBTOON Entertainment's score of 1.13 indicating that John Wiley & Sons is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
John Wiley & Sons
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
WEBTOON Entertainment
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

WEBTOON Entertainment received 8 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.73% of users gave WEBTOON Entertainment an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
John Wiley & SonsOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
3
100.00%
WEBTOON EntertainmentOutperform Votes
8
72.73%
Underperform Votes
3
27.27%

WEBTOON Entertainment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than John Wiley & Sons.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
John Wiley & Sons$1.76B1.37-$200.32M-$0.91-48.69
WEBTOON Entertainment$1.33B1.20-$116.46MN/AN/A

Summary

WEBTOON Entertainment beats John Wiley & Sons on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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WBTN vs. The Competition

MetricWEBTOON Entertainmentpublishing IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.59B$23.14B$23.95B$8.97B
Dividend YieldN/A1.10%2.69%4.06%
P/E RatioN/A6.47268.9916.93
Price / Sales1.204.632,944.49116.20
Price / CashN/A28.6933.8437.95
Price / BookN/A14.417.674.71
Net Income-$116.46M$1.22B$659.02M$225.20M
7 Day Performance-8.29%-4.27%-1.56%-3.77%
1 Month Performance15.79%1.04%9.40%4.45%
1 Year PerformanceN/A-8.69%25.74%18.66%

WEBTOON Entertainment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
2.2327 of 5 stars
$12.39
-4.0%
$26.83
+116.6%
N/A$1.59B$1.33B0.001,854Positive News
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
2.2456 of 5 stars
$46.76
flat
N/A+33.3%$2.53B$1.87B-51.389,500Dividend Increase
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
2.4631 of 5 stars
$45.97
+0.3%
N/A+40.0%$2.48B$1.87B-50.376,400Dividend Increase
Positive News
GCI
Gannett
3.367 of 5 stars
$5.44
+2.3%
$5.55
+2.0%
+126.2%$801.91M$2.66B-6.5710,000Options Volume
News Coverage
Positive News
LEE
Lee Enterprises
N/A$15.82
-2.1%
N/A+78.1%$97.94M$611.38M-3.533,342Gap Down
DALN
DallasNews
0.1469 of 5 stars
$5.02
-7.0%
N/A+14.8%$26.87M$128.29M-4.82660Negative News
VSME
VS MEDIA
N/A$1.02
-1.0%
N/A-65.7%$2.92M$7.99M0.00N/APositive News
NWS
News
0.8003 of 5 stars
$31.64
+0.7%
N/A+26.8%$17.99B$10.16B51.0323,900
PSO
Pearson
1.6797 of 5 stars
$16.14
+0.3%
N/A+35.9%$10.75B$3.55B0.0018,360
TRI
Thomson Reuters
3.9635 of 5 stars
$167.67
-0.3%
$175.20
+4.5%
+19.7%$75.44B$7.16B33.1125,600Positive News
SATS
EchoStar
0.9847 of 5 stars
$24.03
+3.0%
$20.50
-14.7%
+73.1%$6.53B$17.02B-2.6215,300Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:WBTN) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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