WOW vs. ADEA, LILA, LILAK, ATUS, TV, GTN.A, ATEX, GTN, SPIR, and CRGE
Should you be buying WideOpenWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WideOpenWest include Adeia (ADEA), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Altice USA (ATUS), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Gray Television (GTN.A), Anterix (ATEX), Gray Television (GTN), Spire Global (SPIR), and Charge Enterprises (CRGE). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
WideOpenWest vs.
WideOpenWest (NYSE:WOW) and Adeia (NASDAQ:ADEA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Adeia has a net margin of 12.01% compared to WideOpenWest's net margin of -14.17%. Adeia's return on equity of 28.37% beat WideOpenWest's return on equity.
87.8% of WideOpenWest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Adeia shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of WideOpenWest shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Adeia shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
WideOpenWest has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adeia has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Adeia has lower revenue, but higher earnings than WideOpenWest. WideOpenWest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adeia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Adeia had 5 more articles in the media than WideOpenWest. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Adeia and 1 mentions for WideOpenWest. WideOpenWest's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Adeia's score of 0.56 indicating that WideOpenWest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
WideOpenWest received 432 more outperform votes than Adeia when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 88.89% of users gave Adeia an outperform vote while only 60.38% of users gave WideOpenWest an outperform vote.
WideOpenWest presently has a consensus price target of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 66.85%. Adeia has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 31.58%. Given WideOpenWest's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe WideOpenWest is more favorable than Adeia.
Summary
Adeia beats WideOpenWest on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:WOW) was last updated on 1/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff