WOW vs. AMCX, LIND, JOUT, FUBO, LINC, REAL, VTRU, SSP, CVEO, and ONEW
Should you be buying WideOpenWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WideOpenWest include AMC Networks (AMCX), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), fuboTV (FUBO), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), RealReal (REAL), Vitru (VTRU), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Civeo (CVEO), and OneWater Marine (ONEW). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
WideOpenWest (NYSE:WOW) and AMC Networks (NASDAQ:AMCX) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
WideOpenWest has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMC Networks has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AMC Networks has higher revenue and earnings than WideOpenWest. WideOpenWest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AMC Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AMC Networks has a net margin of 6.09% compared to WideOpenWest's net margin of -39.16%. AMC Networks' return on equity of 23.57% beat WideOpenWest's return on equity.
87.8% of WideOpenWest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.5% of AMC Networks shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of WideOpenWest shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.1% of AMC Networks shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AMC Networks received 70 more outperform votes than WideOpenWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.41% of users gave WideOpenWest an outperform vote while only 54.48% of users gave AMC Networks an outperform vote.
WideOpenWest currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 68.78%. AMC Networks has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential downside of 22.44%. Given WideOpenWest's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe WideOpenWest is more favorable than AMC Networks.
In the previous week, AMC Networks had 26 more articles in the media than WideOpenWest. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for AMC Networks and 3 mentions for WideOpenWest. WideOpenWest's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat AMC Networks' score of 0.36 indicating that WideOpenWest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
AMC Networks beats WideOpenWest on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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