SSP vs. EVC, GTN, SBGI, GTN.A, FNKO, HBB, SNBR, CDRO, MYPS, and GHG
Should you be buying E.W. Scripps stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of E.W. Scripps include Entravision Communications (EVC), Gray Television (GTN), Sinclair (SBGI), Gray Television (GTN.A), Funko (FNKO), Hamilton Beach Brands (HBB), Sleep Number (SNBR), Codere Online Luxembourg (CDRO), PLAYSTUDIOS (MYPS), and GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Entravision Communications (NYSE:EVC) and E.W. Scripps (NASDAQ:SSP) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, E.W. Scripps had 3 more articles in the media than Entravision Communications. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for E.W. Scripps and 3 mentions for Entravision Communications. Entravision Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat E.W. Scripps' score of 0.00 indicating that E.W. Scripps is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
69.5% of Entravision Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of E.W. Scripps shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Entravision Communications shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of E.W. Scripps shares are owned 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.
Entravision Communications has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, E.W. Scripps has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
E.W. Scripps has a consensus price target of $11.33, indicating a potential upside of 206.31%. Given Entravision Communications' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe E.W. Scripps is more favorable than Entravision Communications.
Entravision Communications has higher earnings, but lower revenue than E.W. Scripps. Entravision Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than E.W. Scripps, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Entravision Communications received 284 more outperform votes than E.W. Scripps when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.46% of users gave Entravision Communications an outperform vote while only 34.78% of users gave E.W. Scripps an outperform vote.
Entravision Communications has a net margin of -1.39% compared to Entravision Communications' net margin of -41.33%. Entravision Communications' return on equity of 1.81% beat E.W. Scripps' return on equity.
Summary
E.W. Scripps beats Entravision Communications on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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