CCO vs. NCMI, GOOG, OMC, LAMR, IPG, ANGI, THRY, TZOO, PSQH, and FLNT
Should you be buying Clear Channel Outdoor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clear Channel Outdoor include National CineMedia (NCMI), Alphabet (GOOG), Omnicom Group (OMC), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Angi (ANGI), Thryv (THRY), Travelzoo (TZOO), PSQ (PSQH), and Fluent (FLNT).
Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE:CCO) and National CineMedia (NASDAQ:NCMI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Clear Channel Outdoor has a beta of 3.01, suggesting that its stock price is 201% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National CineMedia has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.5% of Clear Channel Outdoor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of National CineMedia shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Clear Channel Outdoor shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of National CineMedia shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
National CineMedia has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Clear Channel Outdoor. Clear Channel Outdoor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National CineMedia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Clear Channel Outdoor had 3 more articles in the media than National CineMedia. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Clear Channel Outdoor and 1 mentions for National CineMedia. Clear Channel Outdoor's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat National CineMedia's score of 0.59 indicating that Clear Channel Outdoor is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clear Channel Outdoor presently has a consensus price target of $2.16, indicating a potential upside of 56.14%. National CineMedia has a consensus price target of $6.08, indicating a potential upside of 25.69%. Given Clear Channel Outdoor's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Clear Channel Outdoor is more favorable than National CineMedia.
National CineMedia received 159 more outperform votes than Clear Channel Outdoor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.58% of users gave National CineMedia an outperform vote while only 53.80% of users gave Clear Channel Outdoor an outperform vote.
National CineMedia has a net margin of 426.76% compared to Clear Channel Outdoor's net margin of -16.05%. National CineMedia's return on equity of 3.45% beat Clear Channel Outdoor's return on equity.
Summary
National CineMedia beats Clear Channel Outdoor on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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