IQ vs. CNVS, NFLX, CCL, FWONK, IHG, NWS, FWONA, FOXA, WMG, and NWSA
Should you be buying iQIYI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iQIYI include Cineverse (CNVS), Netflix (NFLX), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Formula One Group (FWONK), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), News (NWS), Formula One Group (FWONA), FOX (FOXA), Warner Music Group (WMG), and News (NWSA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Cineverse (NASDAQ:CNVS) and iQIYI (NASDAQ:IQ) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
In the previous week, iQIYI had 5 more articles in the media than Cineverse. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for iQIYI and 2 mentions for Cineverse. iQIYI's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Cineverse's score of 0.77 indicating that Cineverse is being referred to more favorably in the media.
8.2% of Cineverse shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.7% of iQIYI shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.8% of Cineverse shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.8% of iQIYI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
iQIYI has higher revenue and earnings than Cineverse. Cineverse is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iQIYI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cineverse has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iQIYI has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
iQIYI received 411 more outperform votes than Cineverse when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.88% of users gave iQIYI an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Cineverse an outperform vote.
Cineverse presently has a consensus price target of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 715.45%. iQIYI has a consensus price target of $6.18, indicating a potential upside of 33.48%. Given iQIYI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cineverse is more favorable than iQIYI.
iQIYI has a net margin of 6.23% compared to iQIYI's net margin of -18.84%. Cineverse's return on equity of 17.57% beat iQIYI's return on equity.
Summary
iQIYI beats Cineverse on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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