TSQ vs. IHRT, UONE, SGA, UONEK, CMLS, BBGI, SALM, SPOT, TME, and SIRI
Should you be buying Townsquare Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Townsquare Media include iHeartMedia (IHRT), Urban One (UONE), Saga Communications (SGA), Urban One (UONEK), Cumulus Media (CMLS), Beasley Broadcast Group (BBGI), Salem Media Group (SALM), Spotify Technology (SPOT), Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), and Sirius XM (SIRI). These companies are all part of the "radio broadcasting stations" industry.
iHeartMedia (NASDAQ:IHRT) and Townsquare Media (NYSE:TSQ) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
iHeartMedia has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Townsquare Media has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Townsquare Media has lower revenue, but higher earnings than iHeartMedia. Townsquare Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iHeartMedia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, iHeartMedia had 2 more articles in the media than Townsquare Media. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for iHeartMedia and 0 mentions for Townsquare Media. iHeartMedia's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Townsquare Media's score of -0.75 indicating that Townsquare Media is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Townsquare Media received 228 more outperform votes than iHeartMedia when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.75% of users gave Townsquare Media an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave iHeartMedia an outperform vote.
93.9% of iHeartMedia shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Townsquare Media shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of iHeartMedia shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.9% of Townsquare Media shares are owned by company 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.
Townsquare Media has a net margin of -9.19% compared to Townsquare Media's net margin of -24.04%. iHeartMedia's return on equity of 98.45% beat Townsquare Media's return on equity.
iHeartMedia currently has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 140.00%. Townsquare Media has a consensus target price of $16.83, suggesting a potential upside of 53.73%. Given Townsquare Media's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe iHeartMedia is more favorable than Townsquare Media.
Summary
Townsquare Media beats iHeartMedia on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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