DALN vs. LEE, WVVI, RGF, SANW, SEED, VWE, EDUC, LOCL, NCRA, and SDOT
Should you be buying DallasNews stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DallasNews include Lee Enterprises (LEE), Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI), Real Good Food (RGF), S&W Seed (SANW), Origin Agritech (SEED), Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), Educational Development (EDUC), Local Bounti (LOCL), Nocera (NCRA), and Sadot Group (SDOT). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
DallasNews (NASDAQ:DALN) and Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Lee Enterprises has a net margin of -1.88% compared to DallasNews' net margin of -5.09%. Lee Enterprises' return on equity of -67.53% beat DallasNews' return on equity.
Lee Enterprises received 205 more outperform votes than DallasNews when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.31% of users gave Lee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave DallasNews an outperform vote.
27.2% of DallasNews shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of DallasNews shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lee Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than DallasNews. Lee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DallasNews, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lee Enterprises had 10 more articles in the media than DallasNews. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Lee Enterprises and 5 mentions for DallasNews. Lee Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat DallasNews' score of 0.72 indicating that Lee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DallasNews has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lee Enterprises beats DallasNews on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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