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GCI vs. WLY, WLYB, WBTN, LEE, DALN, VSME, SOBR, NWS, PSO, and DJCO

Should you be buying Gannett stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gannett include John Wiley & Sons (WLY), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Lee Enterprises (LEE), DallasNews (DALN), VS MEDIA (VSME), SOBR Safe (SOBR), News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), and Daily Journal (DJCO).

Gannett vs.

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

John Wiley & Sons has a net margin of -2.82% compared to Gannett's net margin of -4.44%. John Wiley & Sons' return on equity of 24.14% beat Gannett's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
John Wiley & Sons-2.82% 24.14% 6.67%
Gannett -4.44%-12.16%-1.51%

Gannett received 251 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.31% of users gave Gannett an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
John Wiley & SonsOutperform Votes
1
20.00%
Underperform Votes
4
80.00%
GannettOutperform Votes
252
61.31%
Underperform Votes
159
38.69%

73.9% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.7% of Gannett shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Gannett shares are held 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.

John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gannett has a beta of 2.55, indicating that its share price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Gannett has a consensus target price of $5.55, indicating a potential upside of 13.15%. Given Gannett's stronger consensus rating and higher probable 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)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
John Wiley & Sons$1.87B1.29-$200.32M-$0.91-49.26
Gannett$2.66B0.27-$27.79M-$0.81-6.06

In the previous week, Gannett had 2 more articles in the media than John Wiley & Sons. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Gannett and 0 mentions for John Wiley & Sons. Gannett's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat John Wiley & Sons' score of 0.00 indicating that Gannett is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
John Wiley & Sons Neutral
Gannett Positive

Summary

Gannett beats John Wiley & Sons on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GCI vs. The Competition

MetricGannettNewspapers IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$723.05M$6.23B$7.51B$20.04B
Dividend YieldN/A0.80%2.23%3.61%
P/E Ratio-6.0626.9828.7941.66
Price / Sales0.272.48102.5117.77
Price / Cash6.1018.8529.2017.54
Price / Book2.304.306.125.85
Net Income-$27.79M$111.68M$137.20M$1.01B
7 Day Performance-1.11%-0.94%3.11%3.48%
1 Month Performance-3.63%-3.89%5.56%5.99%
1 Year Performance116.08%41.17%24.48%20.49%

Gannett Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GCI
Gannett
2.8798 of 5 stars
$4.87
-2.3%
$5.55
+14.1%
+119.6%$717.15M$2.66B-6.0110,000
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
0.4619 of 5 stars
$42.22
+0.3%
N/A+34.5%$2.28B$1.76B-46.406,400
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
N/A$41.61
-0.8%
N/A+35.8%$2.25B$1.76B-45.739,500High Trading Volume
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
1.9091 of 5 stars
$12.60
-3.4%
$26.67
+111.6%
N/A$1.62B$1.33B0.001,854Positive News
LEE
Lee Enterprises
N/A$14.10
+0.5%
N/A+19.8%$87.28M$611.38M-3.233,342
DALN
DallasNews
0.0672 of 5 stars
$7.05
-0.7%
N/A+51.2%$37.73M$128.29M-6.29660Positive News
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.204 of 5 stars
$1.12
-5.9%
N/A-48.1%$3.20M$8.49M0.00N/APositive News
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SOBR
SOBR Safe
0.5437 of 5 stars
$0.83
-12.2%
N/A+141.8%$761,000.00$183,859.00-0.029Gap Down
NWS
News
0.8483 of 5 stars
$30.22
+1.1%
N/A+21.6%$17.19B$10.16B48.7425,500
PSO
Pearson
1.316 of 5 stars
$15.44
-1.9%
N/A+30.1%$10.29B$3.55B17.5518,360Gap Down
DJCO
Daily Journal
1.1538 of 5 stars
$514.53
-0.8%
N/A+47.5%$710.05M$67.71M15.78320Positive News
Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:GCI) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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