Analyzing Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR) and Nexstar Media Group (NASDAQ:NXST)

Nexstar Media Group (NASDAQ:NXST) and Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

95.3% of Nexstar Media Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.7% of Beamr Imaging shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of Nexstar Media Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Nexstar Media Group and Beamr Imaging’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nexstar Media Group	10.02%	22.99%	4.54%
Beamr Imaging	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Nexstar Media Group and Beamr Imaging”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nexstar Media Group	$5.41 billion	1.12	$722.00 million	$16.13	12.42
Beamr Imaging	$3.06 million	N/A	-$3.35 million	N/A	N/A

Nexstar Media Group has higher revenue and earnings than Beamr Imaging.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Nexstar Media Group and Beamr Imaging, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nexstar Media Group	0	3	7	0	2.70
Beamr Imaging	1	0	0	0	1.00

Nexstar Media Group currently has a consensus target price of $222.38, suggesting a potential upside of 11.04%. Given Nexstar Media Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Nexstar Media Group is more favorable than Beamr Imaging.

Volatility and Risk

Nexstar Media Group has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beamr Imaging has a beta of 3.69, suggesting that its share price is 269% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Nexstar Media Group beats Beamr Imaging on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nexstar Media Group

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. operates as a diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across the television and digital platforms in the United States. It owns, operates, programs, or provides sales and other services to various markets; and offers television programming services. The company offers video and display advertising platforms that are delivered locally or nationally through its own and various third party websites, mobile and over-the-top applications, other digital media solutions to media publishers, and advertisers and a consumer product reviews platform. In addition, it owns NewsNation, a national cable news network; and WGN-AM, a Chicago radio station, as well as owns and operates digital multicast networks and other multicast network services. Further, its digital assets include local websites, mobile applications, connected television applications, free-ad supported television channels representing products of local television stations, The CW, The Hill and BestReviews, and a suite of advertising solutions. Additionally, the company engages in digital business; and management of real estate assets, including leasing of owned office and production facilities. Its stations are affiliates of ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, The CW, MyNetworkTV, and other broadcast television networks. The company was formerly known as Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. and changed its name to Nexstar Media Group, Inc. in January 2017. Nexstar Media Group, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

About Beamr Imaging

Beamr Imaging Ltd. provides video encoding, transcoding, and optimization solutions in the United States, Israel, and internationally. It offers a suite of video compression software encoder solutions, including Beamr 4 H.264, Beamr 4X H.264 content adaptive, Beamr 5 HEVC, and Beamr 5X HEVC content adaptive encoders; Beamr JPEGmini photo optimization software solutions for reducing joint photographic experts group file sizes; and Beamr Silicon IP block, a hardware solution for integration into dedicated video encoding application-specific integrated circuits, graphics processing units, and application processors. The company serves tier one over-the-top platforms, content distributors, video streaming platforms, and Hollywood studios. The company was formerly known as I.C.V.T Ltd. and changed its name to Beamr Imaging Ltd. in January 2015. Beamr Imaging Ltd. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.