Financial Contrast: Paramount Skydance (PSKY) vs. The Competition

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent 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	8	5	2	0	1.60
Paramount Skydance Competitors	1769	4367	9406	240	2.51

Paramount Skydance presently has a consensus price target of $11.38, suggesting a potential upside of 13.52%. As a group, “Entertainment” companies have a potential upside of 22.38%. Given Paramount Skydance’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Paramount Skydance has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

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 insiders. Comparatively, 24.2% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Paramount Skydance	$28.89 billion	-$621.00 million	34.58
Paramount Skydance Competitors	$10.13 billion	$74.17 million	-5.93

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.

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 19.1% and pay out 79.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Volatility and Risk

Paramount Skydance has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Skydance’s competitors have a beta of 1.06, suggesting that their average share price is 6% more 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	9.20%	-50.30%	-3.12%

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.