FOX vs. PARAA, FOXA, PARA, NXST, FWONA, SNA, NWSA, POOL, EDU, and NWS
Should you be buying FOX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FOX include Paramount Global (PARAA), FOX (FOXA), Paramount Global (PARA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), Formula One Group (FWONA), Snap-on (SNA), News (NWSA), Pool (POOL), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), and News (NWS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARAA) and FOX (NASDAQ:FOX) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Paramount Global has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FOX has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
6.0% of Paramount Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.4% of FOX shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Paramount Global shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of FOX shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
FOX received 369 more outperform votes than Paramount Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.61% of users gave FOX an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Paramount Global an outperform vote.
FOX has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
FOX has a net margin of 11.19% compared to FOX's net margin of -0.15%. Paramount Global's return on equity of 15.90% beat FOX's return on equity.
In the previous week, FOX had 76 more articles in the media than Paramount Global. MarketBeat recorded 93 mentions for FOX and 17 mentions for Paramount Global. FOX's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Paramount Global's score of 0.04 indicating that Paramount Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paramount Global pays an annual dividend of 0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. FOX pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Paramount Global pays out -133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FOX pays out 16.3% 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 increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. FOX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
FOX beats Paramount Global on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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