NYT vs. MORN, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, MKTW, VALU, TRI, NWS, NWSA, and GCI
Should you be buying New York Times stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Times include Morningstar (MORN), Shutterstock (SSTK), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal (DJCO), MarketWise (MKTW), Value Line (VALU), Thomson Reuters (TRI), News (NWS), News (NWSA), and Gannett (GCI).
New York Times (NYSE:NYT) and Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.
95.4% of New York Times shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Morningstar shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of New York Times shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.7% of Morningstar shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
New York Times presently has a consensus target price of $46.71, suggesting a potential downside of 5.87%. Morningstar has a consensus target price of $320.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.61%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Morningstar is more favorable than New York Times.
New York Times pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. New York Times pays out 34.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morningstar pays out 32.7% 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.
New York Times received 59 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.07% of users gave New York Times an outperform vote while only 57.52% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote.
New York Times has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Morningstar has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
New York Times has higher revenue and earnings than Morningstar. New York Times is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morningstar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, New York Times had 71 more articles in the media than Morningstar. MarketBeat recorded 91 mentions for New York Times and 20 mentions for Morningstar. Morningstar's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat New York Times' score of 0.11 indicating that Morningstar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New York Times has a net margin of 10.19% compared to Morningstar's net margin of 10.13%. Morningstar's return on equity of 21.79% beat New York Times' return on equity.
Summary
New York Times and Morningstar tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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