Financial Review: Paramount Skydance (PSKY) vs. Its Rivals

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

Insider & 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 company insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% 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 company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Paramount Skydance	$28.76 billion	-$621.00 million	35.47
Paramount Skydance Competitors	$5.23 billion	$76.31 million	12.98

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.

Risk and Volatility

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Paramount Skydance and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Paramount Skydance	8	5	2	0	1.60
Paramount Skydance Competitors	1782	4390	9419	243	2.51

Paramount Skydance currently has a consensus price target of $11.38, suggesting a potential upside of 10.69%. As a group, “Entertainment” companies have a potential upside of 21.90%. Given Paramount Skydance’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Paramount Skydance has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Dividends

Paramount Skydance pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. 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 18.7% and pay out 79.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

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	-2.13%	4.11%	1.21%
Paramount Skydance Competitors	9.10%	-61.46%	-3.19%

Summary

Paramount Skydance peers 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.