ITV vs. FOUR, ZEG, AAF, RMV, ASCL, GAMA, SONG, MONY, BCG, and HTWS
Should you be buying ITV stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ITV include 4imprint Group (FOUR), Zegona Communications (ZEG), Airtel Africa (AAF), Rightmove (RMV), Ascential (ASCL), Gamma Communications (GAMA), Hipgnosis Songs (SONG), Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), and Helios Towers (HTWS). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
4imprint Group (LON:FOUR) and ITV (LON:ITV) are both communication services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
4imprint Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 7,365, suggesting a potential upside of 16.72%. ITV has a consensus price target of GBX 110, suggesting a potential upside of 40.41%. Given 4imprint Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ITV is more favorable than 4imprint Group.
ITV received 1265 more outperform votes than 4imprint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.98% of users gave ITV an outperform vote while only 72.75% of users gave 4imprint Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ITV had 1 more articles in the media than 4imprint Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for ITV and 0 mentions for 4imprint Group. ITV's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled 4imprint Group'saverage media sentiment score.
4imprint Group has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ITV has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ITV has higher revenue and earnings than 4imprint Group. ITV is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 4imprint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
4imprint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 168 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. ITV pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. 4imprint Group pays out 7,400.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ITV pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
4imprint Group has a net margin of 8.01% compared to 4imprint Group's net margin of 5.80%. ITV's return on equity of 77.32% beat 4imprint Group's return on equity.
80.2% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.9% of ITV shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of ITV shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ITV beats 4imprint Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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