GTN.A vs. SBGI, GTN, SSP, TV, TGNA, AMC, SWBI, MNRO, MBUU, and IMAX
Should you be buying Gray Television stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gray Television include Sinclair (SBGI), Gray Television (GTN), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), TEGNA (TGNA), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI), Monro (MNRO), Malibu Boats (MBUU), and IMAX (IMAX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Gray Television (NYSE:GTN.A) and Sinclair (NASDAQ:SBGI) 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 earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Sinclair has a consensus target price of $18.14, indicating a potential upside of 11.56%. Given Sinclair's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sinclair is more favorable than Gray Television.
Sinclair received 294 more outperform votes than Gray Television when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.82% of users gave Gray Television an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave Sinclair an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sinclair had 7 more articles in the media than Gray Television. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Sinclair and 9 mentions for Gray Television. Sinclair's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Gray Television's score of 0.24 indicating that Sinclair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gray Television has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sinclair has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
0.3% of Gray Television shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Sinclair shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of Gray Television shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.6% of Sinclair shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Gray Television pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Gray Television pays out -23.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sinclair pays out -20.7% 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.
Gray Television has a net margin of -2.32% compared to Sinclair's net margin of -9.29%. Sinclair's return on equity of 26.46% beat Gray Television's return on equity.
Gray Television has higher revenue and earnings than Sinclair. Gray Television is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sinclair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sinclair beats Gray Television on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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