LEE vs. DALN, VSME, SOBR, NWS, PSO, WLY, WLYB, WBTN, GCI, and NWSA
Should you be buying Lee Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lee Enterprises include DallasNews (DALN), VS MEDIA (VSME), SOBR Safe (SOBR), News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Gannett (GCI), and News (NWSA).
Lee Enterprises vs.
DallasNews (NASDAQ:DALN) and Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
DallasNews has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
27.2% of DallasNews shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of DallasNews shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Lee Enterprises had 12 more articles in the media than DallasNews. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Lee Enterprises and 0 mentions for DallasNews. Lee Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat DallasNews' score of 0.00 indicating that Lee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DallasNews has a net margin of -4.71% compared to Lee Enterprises' net margin of -7.21%. Lee Enterprises' return on equity of -325.44% beat DallasNews' return on equity.
Lee Enterprises received 211 more outperform votes than DallasNews when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.43% of users gave Lee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave DallasNews an outperform vote.
DallasNews has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lee Enterprises. DallasNews is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lee Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lee Enterprises beats DallasNews on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:LEE) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
