Head-To-Head Comparison: Nexstar Media Group (NASDAQ:NXST) & Sycamore Entertainment Group (OTCMKTS:SEGI)

Sycamore Entertainment Group (OTCMKTS:SEGI) and Nexstar Media Group (NASDAQ:NXST) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Risk and Volatility

Sycamore Entertainment Group has a beta of 61.83, indicating that its share price is 6,083% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nexstar Media Group has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

95.3% of Nexstar Media Group shares are held by institutional investors. 75.5% of Sycamore Entertainment Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Nexstar Media Group shares 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.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sycamore Entertainment Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nexstar Media Group	11.90%	28.40%	5.52%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Sycamore Entertainment Group and Nexstar Media Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sycamore Entertainment Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Nexstar Media Group	0	1	6	0	2.86

Nexstar Media Group has a consensus price target of $225.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.27%. Given Nexstar Media Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nexstar Media Group is more favorable than Sycamore Entertainment Group.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sycamore Entertainment Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nexstar Media Group	$5.41 billion	1.15	$722.00 million	$19.26	10.69

Nexstar Media Group has higher revenue and earnings than Sycamore Entertainment Group.

Summary

Nexstar Media Group beats Sycamore Entertainment Group on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Sycamore Entertainment Group

Sycamore Entertainment Group, Inc., a diversified entertainment company, which specializes in the acquisition, marketing, and worldwide distribution of feature-length motion pictures. The company is based in Seattle, Washington.

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.