ITV vs. FOUR, ZEG, AAF, RMV, ASCL, GAMA, MONY, BCG, HTWS, and YOU
Should you be buying ITV stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ITV include 4imprint Group (FOUR), Zegona Communications (ZEG), Airtel Africa (AAF), Rightmove (RMV), Ascential (ASCL), Gamma Communications (GAMA), Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), Helios Towers (HTWS), and YouGov (YOU). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
ITV (LON:ITV) and 4imprint Group (LON:FOUR) are both communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
63.9% of ITV shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.5% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of ITV shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ITV has higher revenue and earnings than 4imprint Group. ITV is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 4imprint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ITV and ITV both had 1 articles in the media. ITV's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat 4imprint Group's score of 0.00 indicating that ITV is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ITV received 1265 more outperform votes than 4imprint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.98% of users gave ITV an outperform vote while only 72.75% of users gave 4imprint Group an outperform vote.
ITV pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. 4imprint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 168 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. ITV pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 4imprint Group pays out 5,618.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
ITV has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 4imprint Group has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ITV currently has a consensus target price of GBX 110, suggesting a potential upside of 56.03%. 4imprint Group has a consensus target price of GBX 7,365, suggesting a potential upside of 17.28%. Given ITV's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe ITV is more favorable than 4imprint Group.
4imprint Group has a net margin of 8.01% compared to ITV's net margin of 5.80%. 4imprint Group's return on equity of 77.32% beat ITV's return on equity.
Summary
ITV beats 4imprint Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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