FOXA vs. PARAA, FOX, PARA, NXST, H, EDU, FWONA, NWS, POOL, and SNA
Should you be buying FOX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FOX include Paramount Global (PARAA), FOX (FOX), Paramount Global (PARA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), Hyatt Hotels (H), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), Formula One Group (FWONA), News (NWS), Pool (POOL), and Snap-on (SNA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
FOX (NASDAQ:FOXA) and Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARAA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
FOX received 964 more outperform votes than Paramount Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.27% of users gave FOX an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Paramount Global an outperform vote.
FOX pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Paramount Global pays an annual dividend of 0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. FOX pays out 30.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Paramount Global pays out -19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
FOX has a net margin of 5.75% compared to Paramount Global's net margin of -2.05%. FOX's return on equity of 15.81% beat Paramount Global's return on equity.
FOX currently has a consensus target price of $33.40, suggesting a potential upside of 7.02%. Given FOX's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe FOX is more favorable than Paramount Global.
In the previous week, Paramount Global had 12 more articles in the media than FOX. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Paramount Global and 5 mentions for FOX. FOX's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Paramount Global's score of 0.31 indicating that FOX is being referred to more favorably in the media.
52.5% of FOX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.0% of Paramount Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.8% of FOX shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Paramount Global shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
FOX has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Global has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FOX has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Paramount Global. Paramount Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FOX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
FOX beats Paramount Global on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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