GCI vs. DADA, ICG, DAO, FC, CTLP, MKTW, CCRN, CDLX, RXT, and ADTN
Should you be buying Gannett stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gannett include Dada Nexus (DADA), Intchains Group (ICG), Youdao (DAO), Franklin Covey (FC), Cantaloupe (CTLP), MarketWise (MKTW), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Cardlytics (CDLX), Rackspace Technology (RXT), and ADTRAN (ADTN). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Gannett (NYSE:GCI) and Dada Nexus (NASDAQ:DADA) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Gannett has higher revenue and earnings than Dada Nexus. Gannett is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dada Nexus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gannett has a net margin of -4.67% compared to Dada Nexus' net margin of -22.77%. Dada Nexus' return on equity of -14.03% beat Gannett's return on equity.
Gannett presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.41%. Dada Nexus has a consensus price target of $3.83, suggesting a potential upside of 98.45%. Given Dada Nexus' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dada Nexus is more favorable than Gannett.
76.7% of Gannett shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of Dada Nexus shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Gannett shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Dada Nexus shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gannett has a beta of 2.3, suggesting that its stock price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dada Nexus has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dada Nexus had 13 more articles in the media than Gannett. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Dada Nexus and 4 mentions for Gannett. Gannett's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Dada Nexus' score of -0.27 indicating that Gannett is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gannett received 218 more outperform votes than Dada Nexus when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.58% of users gave Gannett an outperform vote while only 50.79% of users gave Dada Nexus an outperform vote.
Summary
Gannett beats Dada Nexus on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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