Analyzing ITV (ITVPF) & Its Rivals

Dividends

ITV pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. ITV pays out 36.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Media” companies pay a dividend yield of 5.0% and pay out 100.3% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares ITV and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
ITV	N/A	N/A	9.55
ITV Competitors	$2.96 billion	-$25.26 million	14.60

ITV’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than ITV. ITV is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares ITV and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ITV	N/A	N/A	N/A
ITV Competitors	-19.43%	-47.77%	-5.29%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

46.5% of ITV shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of shares of all “Media” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.8% of shares of all “Media” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ITV beats its peers on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

ITV Company Profile

ITV plc, an integrated production, broadcasting, and streaming company, which creates, owns, and distributes content on various platforms worldwide. It operates through ITV Studios and Media & Entertainment segments. The ITV Studios segment creates and produces programs and formats that include sports, drama, entertainment, factual, and news for its own channels and other broadcasters. The segment also operates as an unscripted independent producer of content in the United States; and produces content for local broadcasters and international OTT platforms in Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. In addition, this segment engages in licensing its finished programmes, formats, and third-party content internationally, as well as finances productions. The Media & Entertainment segment broadcasts and streams various contents on its family of free-to-air TV channels; and offers television advertising services. The company also delivers content through linear television broadcasting, as well as on the ITV Hub, BritBox UK, ITVX, catch up services on pay platforms, and through direct content deals. In addition, this segment offers online advertising, HD digital channel on pay platform, and ITV Premium subscription services. The company was founded in 1955 is based in London, the United Kingdom.