Gannett (GCI) Competitors

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

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in WLYB or GCI?

0.5% of John Wiley & Sons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.7% of Gannett shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.7% of John Wiley & Sons shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Gannett shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, WLYB or GCI?

Gannett has higher revenue and earnings than John Wiley & Sons. John Wiley & Sons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gannett, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
John Wiley & Sons	$1.87B	1.45	-$200.32M	-$2.00	-25.10
Gannett	$2.66B	0.28	-$27.79M	-$0.81	-6.17

Which has more risk & volatility, WLYB or GCI?

John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gannett has a beta of 2.51, meaning that its stock price is 151% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer WLYB or GCI?

Gannett received 252 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.31% of users gave Gannett an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
John Wiley & Sons	Outperform Votes No Votes	Underperform Votes 3 100.00%
Gannett	Outperform Votes 252 61.31%	Underperform Votes 159 38.69%

Do analysts recommend WLYB or GCI?

Gannett has a consensus price target of $5.37, suggesting a potential upside of 7.33%. Given Gannett's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gannett 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
Gannett	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Is WLYB or GCI more profitable?

Gannett has a net margin of -4.44% compared to John Wiley & Sons' net margin of -6.00%. John Wiley & Sons' return on equity of 21.59% beat Gannett's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
John Wiley & Sons	-6.00%	21.59%	6.10%
Gannett	-4.44%	-12.16%	-1.51%

Does the media prefer WLYB or GCI?

In the previous week, John Wiley & Sons had 1 more articles in the media than Gannett. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for John Wiley & Sons and 0 mentions for Gannett. John Wiley & Sons' average media sentiment score of 1.90 beat Gannett's score of 1.28 indicating that John Wiley & Sons is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
John Wiley & Sons	Very Positive
Gannett	Positive

Summary

Gannett beats John Wiley & Sons on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.