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WOW vs. GTN.A, CABO, GTN, ATEX, TSAT, SPIR, SSP, IHRT, AREN, and CXDO

Should you be buying WideOpenWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WideOpenWest include Gray Media (GTN.A), Cable One (CABO), Gray Media (GTN), Anterix (ATEX), Telesat (TSAT), Spire Global (SPIR), E.W. Scripps (SSP), iHeartMedia (IHRT), The Arena Group (AREN), and Crexendo (CXDO). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.

WideOpenWest vs. Its Competitors

Gray Media (NYSE:GTN.A) and WideOpenWest (NYSE:WOW) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.

Gray Media has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WideOpenWest has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

0.3% of Gray Media shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of WideOpenWest shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of Gray Media shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of WideOpenWest shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

WideOpenWest has a consensus target price of $6.50, suggesting a potential upside of 94.61%. Given WideOpenWest's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WideOpenWest is more favorable than Gray Media.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Gray Media
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
WideOpenWest
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Gray Media has a net margin of 7.72% compared to WideOpenWest's net margin of -9.32%. Gray Media's return on equity of 12.75% beat WideOpenWest's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Gray Media7.72% 12.75% 2.63%
WideOpenWest -9.32%-26.90%-3.83%

Gray Media has higher revenue and earnings than WideOpenWest. WideOpenWest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gray Media, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Gray Media$3.64B0.30$375M$2.314.61
WideOpenWest$630.90M0.45-$58.80M-$0.70-4.77

In the previous week, Gray Media and Gray Media both had 6 articles in the media. WideOpenWest's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Gray Media's score of 0.37 indicating that WideOpenWest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Gray Media
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
WideOpenWest
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Gray Media beats WideOpenWest on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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WOW vs. The Competition

MetricWideOpenWestCABLE TV IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$288.05M$23.58B$8.10B$20.69B
Dividend YieldN/A1.50%3.24%3.67%
P/E Ratio-4.774.5418.9129.07
Price / Sales0.453.084.2566.55
Price / Cash1.865.5016.2522.84
Price / Book1.361.114.784.43
Net Income-$58.80M$3.13B$218.39M$994.22M
7 Day Performance-8.27%-6.35%-4.55%-3.35%
1 Month Performance-18.64%-14.45%38.52%-2.06%
1 Year Performance-35.65%0.28%19.92%10.15%

WideOpenWest Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WOW
WideOpenWest
2.2517 of 5 stars
$3.34
-0.9%
$6.50
+94.6%
-36.4%$288.05M$630.90M-4.771,320News Coverage
Short Interest ↑
GTN.A
Gray Media
N/A$10.98
+2.1%
N/A+20.2%$1.09B$3.64B4.758,610News Coverage
CABO
Cable One
4.3023 of 5 stars
$142.31
-1.4%
$309.25
+117.3%
-66.1%$812.26M$1.58B-56.702,817News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
GTN
Gray Media
4.784 of 5 stars
$4.86
-2.2%
$6.17
+26.9%
-26.6%$504.67M$3.64B2.109,502Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
ATEX
Anterix
2.2551 of 5 stars
$21.83
+3.0%
$67.00
+206.9%
-44.5%$396.35M$6.03M-34.6570Upcoming Earnings
TSAT
Telesat
0.8002 of 5 stars
$25.33
-3.0%
N/A+194.7%$356.03M$416.79M0.00470News Coverage
Positive News
SPIR
Spire Global
2.2308 of 5 stars
$10.57
-5.2%
$18.20
+72.2%
-23.4%$346.51M$110.45M-3.04370Gap Down
SSP
E.W. Scripps
4.1323 of 5 stars
$3.37
+1.2%
$6.00
+78.0%
-17.6%$292.08M$2.51B3.665,000News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
IHRT
iHeartMedia
2.4996 of 5 stars
$1.98
+0.5%
$2.92
+47.3%
+5.2%$290.82M$3.85B-0.2410,100Gap Down
AREN
The Arena Group
1.8577 of 5 stars
$5.76
-5.6%
$10.00
+73.6%
+642.7%$273.95M$128.78M-1.36360
CXDO
Crexendo
2.7664 of 5 stars
$5.76
-2.2%
$8.38
+45.4%
+29.3%$170.99M$60.84M72.01120Upcoming Earnings

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