Financial Contrast: FOX (FOXA) vs. Its Competitors

FOX (NASDAQ:FOXA) is one of 257 publicly-traded companies in the “Media” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare FOX to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for FOX and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FOX	0	10	14	2	2.69
FOX Competitors	2345	6940	10802	493	2.46

FOX currently has a consensus price target of $79.84, indicating a potential upside of 16.69%. As a group, “Media” companies have a potential upside of 29.22%. Given FOX’s peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe FOX has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Dividends

FOX pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. FOX pays out 12.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Media” companies pay a dividend yield of 5.5% and pay out 275.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. FOX has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FOX	11.30%	23.96%	12.52%
FOX Competitors	-19.22%	-48.93%	-4.92%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares FOX and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
FOX	$17.96 billion	$1.69 billion	14.53
FOX Competitors	$2.99 billion	$35.12 million	-3.46

FOX has higher revenue and earnings than its peers. FOX 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.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

52.5% of FOX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.1% of shares of all “Media” companies are held by institutional investors. 20.9% of FOX shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of shares of all “Media” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

FOX has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FOX’s peers have a beta of 0.96, meaning that their average share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

FOX beats its peers on 12 of the 15 factors compared.

About FOX

Fox Corporation is a media company focused primarily on news, sports and entertainment for audiences in the United States. Its businesses include Fox News Media, Fox Sports and Fox Entertainment, which produce and distribute television programming, news coverage, live sports and entertainment content. The company also operates the Fox broadcast network and local television stations, and offers streaming services including Tubi, an ad-supported streaming platform, and Fox Nation, a subscription service.