Comparing ITV (ITVPF) & Its Rivals

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares ITV and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
ITV	N/A	N/A	9.55
ITV Competitors	$2.96 billion	-$23.60 million	13.64

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

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 5.2% and pay out 173.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

This table compares ITV and its competitors’ 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	-19.39%	-47.84%	-5.28%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

46.5% of ITV shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.7% of shares of all “Media” companies are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of shares of all “Media” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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

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.