LEE vs. DALN, GROV, VGII, BRLS, BRID, TUP, MLEC, BHIL, SEED, and BRFH
Should you be buying Lee Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lee Enterprises include DallasNews (DALN), Grove Collaborative (GROV), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), Borealis Foods (BRLS), Bridgford Foods (BRID), Tupperware Brands (TUP), Moolec Science (MLEC), Benson Hill (BHIL), Origin Agritech (SEED), and Barfresh Food Group (BRFH). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
DallasNews (NASDAQ:DALN) and Lee Enterprises (NYSE:LEE) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
Lee Enterprises received 206 more outperform votes than DallasNews when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.42% of users gave Lee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave DallasNews an outperform vote.
In the previous week, DallasNews and DallasNews both had 7 articles in the media. DallasNews' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Lee Enterprises' score of 0.04 indicating that Lee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DallasNews has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lee Enterprises has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lee Enterprises has a net margin of -1.88% compared to Lee Enterprises' net margin of -4.31%. DallasNews' return on equity of -67.53% beat Lee Enterprises' return on equity.
27.2% of DallasNews shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of DallasNews shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Lee Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lee Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than DallasNews. Lee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DallasNews, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lee Enterprises beats DallasNews on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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