NEWS CORPORATION vs THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, two Commercial Printing stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where NWS and NYT diverge most: on debt / equity, NWS reads 0.22 and NYT reads 0.00; on return on assets, NWS reads 3.7% and NYT reads 13.2%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's NWS price has a different growth bar priced in than NYT (+7.5% implied for NWS vs +14.4% for NYT); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What NYT's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | NWS | NYT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $32.03 | $66.31 |
| Market cap | $17.8B | $10.8B |
| Sector | Commercial Printing | Commercial Printing |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +7.5% | +14.4% |
| P/E | 31.1 | 27.6 |
| P/B | 1.93 | 5.28 |
| P/S | 1.97 | 3.63 |
| EV/EBITDA | 36.5 | 19.4 |
| Revenue growth | +6.8% | +10.8% |
| Operating margin | — | 15.5% |
| Net margin | 6.3% | 13.2% |
| Return on equity | 6.2% | 19.2% |
| Return on assets | 3.7% | 13.2% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 18.9% |
| FCF yield | 4.6% | 5.8% |
| Dividend yield | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Debt / equity | 0.22 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.62 | 1.58 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.69 | 8.53 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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