Paramount Skydance (PSKY) & Its Rivals Head-To-Head Review

Paramount Skydance (NASDAQ:PSKY) is one of 186 public companies in the “Entertainment” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Paramount Skydance to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, dividends and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Paramount Skydance and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Paramount Skydance	8	5	2	0	1.60
Paramount Skydance Competitors	1775	4382	9412	243	2.51

Paramount Skydance currently has a consensus price target of $11.38, suggesting a potential upside of 11.61%. As a group, “Entertainment” companies have a potential upside of 22.46%. Given Paramount Skydance’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Paramount Skydance has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares Paramount Skydance and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Paramount Skydance	-2.13%	4.11%	1.21%
Paramount Skydance Competitors	9.17%	-61.36%	-3.16%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

73.0% of Paramount Skydance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.8% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Paramount Skydance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.8% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Paramount Skydance and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Paramount Skydance	$28.89 billion	-$621.00 million	35.17
Paramount Skydance Competitors	$10.23 billion	$76.31 million	13.32

Paramount Skydance has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its rivals. Paramount Skydance is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Volatility and Risk

Paramount Skydance has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Skydance’s rivals have a beta of 0.93, meaning that their average stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Paramount Skydance pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Paramount Skydance pays out 69.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Entertainment” companies pay a dividend yield of 19.3% and pay out 78.9% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Paramount Skydance rivals beat Paramount Skydance on 8 of the 15 factors compared.

About Paramount Skydance

Paramount Global is a media and entertainment company which creates premium content and experiences for audiences. The company’s portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount , Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. Paramount Global, formerly known as ViacomCBS Inc., is based in NEW YORK.