WBTN vs. WLY, WLYB, GCI, LEE, DALN, VSME, NWS, PSO, TRI, and BILI
Should you be buying WEBTOON Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WEBTOON Entertainment include John Wiley & Sons (WLY), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), Gannett (GCI), Lee Enterprises (LEE), DallasNews (DALN), VS MEDIA (VSME), News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), Thomson Reuters (TRI), and Bilibili (BILI).
John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) and WEBTOON Entertainment (NASDAQ:WBTN) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.
73.9% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
WEBTOON Entertainment has a consensus target price of $27.17, indicating a potential upside of 123.23%. Given WEBTOON Entertainment's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WEBTOON Entertainment is more favorable than John Wiley & Sons.
WEBTOON Entertainment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than John Wiley & Sons.
WEBTOON Entertainment received 6 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave WEBTOON Entertainment an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.
WEBTOON Entertainment has a net margin of 0.00% compared to John Wiley & Sons' net margin of -10.69%. John Wiley & Sons' return on equity of 18.82% beat WEBTOON Entertainment's return on equity.
In the previous week, WEBTOON Entertainment had 12 more articles in the media than John Wiley & Sons. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for WEBTOON Entertainment and 14 mentions for John Wiley & Sons. WEBTOON Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat John Wiley & Sons' score of 0.01 indicating that WEBTOON Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
WEBTOON Entertainment beats John Wiley & Sons on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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