Analyzing ITV (OTCMKTS:ITVPY) and fuboTV (NYSE:FUBO)

fuboTV (NYSE:FUBO) and ITV (OTCMKTS:ITVPY) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares fuboTV and ITV’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
fuboTV	5.50%	-20.81%	-5.41%
ITV	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for fuboTV and ITV, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
fuboTV	0	1	2	1	3.00
ITV	1	3	0	0	1.75

fuboTV currently has a consensus price target of $4.63, suggesting a potential upside of 32.33%. Given fuboTV’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe fuboTV is more favorable than ITV.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

39.3% of fuboTV shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of ITV shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of fuboTV shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of ITV shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

fuboTV has a beta of 2.28, meaning that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ITV has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares fuboTV and ITV”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
fuboTV	$1.63 billion	0.74	-$172.25 million	$0.26	13.44
ITV	$4.46 billion	0.93	$521.38 million	N/A	N/A

ITV has higher revenue and earnings than fuboTV.

Summary

fuboTV beats ITV on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About fuboTV

fuboTV, Inc. engages in providing subscription to sports, news, and entertainment content. It offers its services through streaming devices and on television, mobile phones, tablets, and computers. The company was founded by David Gandler, Alberto Horihuela Suarez, and Sung Ho Choi on February 20, 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

About ITV

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.