WOW vs. QRTEB, ADEA, ATUS, AMCX, AREN, TRKAQ, CMCSA, CHTR, RCI, and WBD
Should you be buying WideOpenWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WideOpenWest include Qurate Retail (QRTEB), Adeia (ADEA), Altice USA (ATUS), AMC Networks (AMCX), The Arena Group (AREN), Troika Media Group (TRKAQ), Comcast (CMCSA), Charter Communications (CHTR), Rogers Communications (RCI), and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
WideOpenWest (NYSE:WOW) and Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEB) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
In the previous week, WideOpenWest had 5 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for WideOpenWest and 1 mentions for Qurate Retail. Qurate Retail's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat WideOpenWest's score of 0.34 indicating that Qurate Retail is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
WideOpenWest presently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 59.05%. Given WideOpenWest's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WideOpenWest is more favorable than Qurate Retail.
Qurate Retail has a net margin of -1.56% compared to WideOpenWest's net margin of -39.16%. Qurate Retail's return on equity of 23.19% beat WideOpenWest's return on equity.
WideOpenWest received 248 more outperform votes than Qurate Retail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.78% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 60.41% of users gave WideOpenWest an outperform vote.
87.8% of WideOpenWest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.3% of Qurate Retail shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of WideOpenWest shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of Qurate Retail shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
WideOpenWest has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qurate Retail has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Qurate Retail has higher revenue and earnings than WideOpenWest. Qurate Retail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WideOpenWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Qurate Retail beats WideOpenWest on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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