Reviewing Paramount Skydance (PSKY) & Its Peers

Paramount Skydance (NASDAQ:PSKY) is one of 188 public companies in the “Entertainment” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Paramount Skydance to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Paramount Skydance and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Paramount Skydance	$28.89 billion	-$621.00 million	13.83
Paramount Skydance Competitors	$4.53 billion	$68.78 million	-6.98

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Paramount Skydance and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Paramount Skydance	9	5	2	0	1.56
Paramount Skydance Competitors	1745	4333	9342	237	2.52

Paramount Skydance currently has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 52.19%. As a group, “Entertainment” companies have a potential upside of 25.10%. Given Paramount Skydance’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Paramount Skydance is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Paramount Skydance	-2.08%	4.58%	1.46%
Paramount Skydance Competitors	10.28%	-4.37%	-3.31%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

73.0% of Paramount Skydance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.1% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Paramount Skydance shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.0% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Paramount Skydance has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Skydance’s peers have a beta of 1.05, meaning that their average share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Paramount Skydance pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Paramount Skydance pays out 35.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Entertainment” companies pay a dividend yield of 19.4% and pay out 80.1% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Paramount Skydance beats its peers 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.