Contrasting Paramount Skydance (PSKY) & Its Peers

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Paramount Skydance and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Paramount Skydance	8	5	2	0	1.60
Paramount Skydance Competitors	1773	4377	9410	242	2.51

Paramount Skydance currently has a consensus target price of $11.38, suggesting a potential upside of 9.15%. As a group, “Entertainment” companies have a potential upside of 23.54%. Given Paramount Skydance’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Paramount Skydance has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Paramount Skydance	$28.89 billion	-$621.00 million	35.97
Paramount Skydance Competitors	$4.62 billion	$76.31 million	13.15

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

Volatility and Risk

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

Profitability

This table compares Paramount Skydance and its rivals’ 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	8.93%	-60.85%	-3.28%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

73.0% of Paramount Skydance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.8% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Paramount Skydance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.8% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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 19.2% and pay out 80.1% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Paramount Skydance rivals 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.