Paramount Skydance (PSKY) versus Its Peers Financial Contrast

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Paramount Skydance and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Paramount Skydance	9	5	2	0	1.56
Paramount Skydance Competitors	1756	4349	9367	238	2.51

Paramount Skydance currently has a consensus target price of $11.14, indicating a potential upside of 22.99%. As a group, “Entertainment” companies have a potential upside of 25.91%. Given Paramount Skydance’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Paramount Skydance has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Paramount Skydance and its competitors’ 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	10.52%	-3.59%	-3.02%

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Paramount Skydance	$28.76 billion	-$621.00 million	15.89
Paramount Skydance Competitors	$4.10 billion	$74.17 million	-9.25

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

Risk & Volatility

Paramount Skydance has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Skydance’s competitors have a beta of 1.06, meaning that their average share price is 6% 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 2.2%. 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 78.7% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

73.0% of Paramount Skydance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.6% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Paramount Skydance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.2% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Paramount Skydance competitors 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.