Paramount Skydance (PSKY) and Its Peers Head-To-Head Comparison

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

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Paramount Skydance	$28.89 billion	-$621.00 million	37.73
Paramount Skydance Competitors	$4.17 billion	$76.31 million	12.48

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.

Volatility and Risk

Paramount Skydance has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Skydance’s competitors have a beta of 0.93, suggesting that their average share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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	8.87%	-62.58%	-3.30%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Paramount Skydance and its competitors, 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	1797	4401	9444	244	2.51

Paramount Skydance currently has a consensus target price of $11.38, indicating a potential upside of 4.05%. As a group, “Entertainment” companies have a potential upside of 23.93%. Given Paramount Skydance’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Paramount Skydance has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

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

Dividends

Paramount Skydance pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. 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 19.0% and pay out 78.7% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

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

Paramount Skydance Company Profile

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.