Reviewing ITV (OTCMKTS:ITVPY) and Beasley Broadcast Group (NASDAQ:BBGI)

Beasley Broadcast Group (NASDAQ:BBGI) and ITV (OTCMKTS:ITVPY) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Risk and Volatility

Beasley Broadcast Group has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ITV has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Beasley Broadcast Group and ITV, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Beasley Broadcast Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
ITV	1	3	0	0	1.75

Profitability

This table compares Beasley Broadcast Group and ITV’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Beasley Broadcast Group	-3.84%	-2.59%	-0.69%
ITV	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Beasley Broadcast Group and ITV”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Beasley Broadcast Group	$240.29 million	0.04	-$5.89 million	($4.73)	-1.23
ITV	$4.46 billion	0.94	$521.38 million	N/A	N/A

ITV has higher revenue and earnings than Beasley Broadcast Group.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

21.7% of Beasley Broadcast Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of ITV shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.8% of Beasley Broadcast Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of ITV shares are owned by company 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 Beasley Broadcast Group on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Beasley Broadcast Group

Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc., a multi-platform media company, owns and operates radio stations in the United States. The company offers local and national advertisers integrated marketing solutions across audio, digital, and event platforms. It operates Houston Outlaws, an esports team that competes in the Overwatch League; and an esports team that competes in the Rocket League. Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. was founded in 1961 and is based in Naples, Florida.

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.