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$15.15 +0.16 (+1.07%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:16 PM ET)

LEE vs. DALN, VSME, NWS, PSO, WLYB, WLY, WBTN, GCI, NWSA, and NYT

Should you be buying Lee Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lee Enterprises include DallasNews (DALN), VS MEDIA (VSME), News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Gannett (GCI), News (NWSA), and New York Times (NYT).

Lee Enterprises vs.

DallasNews (NASDAQ:DALN) and Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
DallasNewsOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
2
100.00%
Lee EnterprisesOutperform Votes
211
62.43%
Underperform Votes
127
37.57%

In the previous week, Lee Enterprises had 10 more articles in the media than DallasNews. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Lee Enterprises and 2 mentions for DallasNews. Lee Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat DallasNews' score of 0.00 indicating that Lee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
DallasNews
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Lee Enterprises
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

DallasNews has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Lee Enterprises has a net margin of -2.88% compared to DallasNews' net margin of -4.71%. Lee Enterprises' return on equity of -112.98% beat DallasNews' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
DallasNews-4.71% -330.08% -9.95%
Lee Enterprises -2.88%-112.98%-2.56%

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, 11.4% of Lee Enterprises shares are owned by 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.

Lee Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than DallasNews. 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
DallasNews$128.29M0.28-$7.11M-$1.12-5.93
Lee Enterprises$611.38M0.15-$5.27M-$4.36-3.47

Summary

Lee Enterprises beats DallasNews on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LEE vs. The Competition

MetricLee EnterprisesNewspapers IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$93.79M$6.23B$14.03B$19.18B
Dividend YieldN/A0.77%2.78%3.60%
P/E Ratio-5.0728.5121.9641.28
Price / Sales0.152.562.6017.60
Price / Cash3.9839.5821.1421.28
Price / Book3.874.395.855.32
Net Income-$5.27M$106.52M$572.90M$989.88M
7 Day Performance-6.25%0.05%-1.84%-3.54%
1 Month Performance-5.90%-0.88%-3.05%-3.68%
1 Year Performance84.53%50.39%2.93%12.14%

Lee Enterprises Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LEE
Lee Enterprises
N/A$15.15
+1.1%
N/A+88.4%$93.79M$611.38M-5.073,342Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Gap Down
DALN
DallasNews
0.0745 of 5 stars
$5.02
-7.0%
N/A+58.9%$26.87M$128.29M-4.82660News Coverage
VSME
VS MEDIA
N/A$1.02
-1.0%
N/A-66.4%$2.92M$7.99M0.00N/APositive News
NWS
News
0.7322 of 5 stars
$31.64
+0.7%
N/A+25.5%$17.99B$10.09B50.6923,900
PSO
Pearson
1.8379 of 5 stars
$16.16
+0.4%
N/A+32.4%$10.77B$3.55B0.0018,360
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
2.2262 of 5 stars
$46.76
flat
N/A+35.4%$2.53B$1.87B-51.389,500Dividend Increase
Positive News
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
2.0719 of 5 stars
$46.05
+0.5%
N/A+33.4%$2.49B$1.87B-50.376,400Positive News
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
2.1264 of 5 stars
$13.06
+2.5%
$26.83
+105.5%
N/A$1.68B$1.28B0.001,854Lockup Expiration
News Coverage
Positive News
GCI
Gannett
2.5428 of 5 stars
$5.43
+2.1%
$5.55
+2.2%
+101.2%$800.44M$2.66B-6.5710,000Options Volume
Positive News
Gap Down
NWSA
News
4.2082 of 5 stars
$28.86
+0.9%
$40.33
+39.8%
+19.0%$16.41B$10.16B46.1523,900Analyst Downgrade
NYT
New York Times
3.2972 of 5 stars
$56.03
+1.7%
$54.83
-2.1%
+15.4%$9.19B$2.54B32.965,900Dividend Announcement

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This page (NYSE:LEE) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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