EVC vs. BBGI, SALM, FWONA, NXST, SBGI, GTN, SSP, FENG, FOXA, and FOX
Should you be buying Entravision Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Entravision Communications include Beasley Broadcast Group (BBGI), Salem Media Group (SALM), Formula One Group (FWONA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), Sinclair (SBGI), Gray Television (GTN), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Phoenix New Media (FENG), FOX (FOXA), and FOX (FOX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Beasley Broadcast Group (NASDAQ:BBGI) and Entravision Communications (NYSE:EVC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Beasley Broadcast Group has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Entravision Communications has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Beasley Broadcast Group pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 30.8%. Entravision Communications pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Beasley Broadcast Group pays out -8.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Entravision Communications pays out -26.7% 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. Entravision Communications has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Beasley Broadcast Group had 1 more articles in the media than Entravision Communications. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Beasley Broadcast Group and 1 mentions for Entravision Communications. Beasley Broadcast Group's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Entravision Communications' score of 0.96 indicating that Entravision Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Entravision Communications received 87 more outperform votes than Beasley Broadcast Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.33% of users gave Entravision Communications an outperform vote while only 47.34% of users gave Beasley Broadcast Group an outperform vote.
Entravision Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Beasley Broadcast Group. Entravision Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beasley Broadcast Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
21.7% of Beasley Broadcast Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of Entravision Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 56.5% of Beasley Broadcast Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Entravision Communications 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.
Entravision Communications has a net margin of -5.79% compared to Entravision Communications' net margin of -29.37%. Entravision Communications' return on equity of -2.24% beat Beasley Broadcast Group's return on equity.
Summary
Entravision Communications beats Beasley Broadcast Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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