Contrasting Appreciated Media (OTCMKTS:AMEFF) & Paramount Skydance (NASDAQ:PSKY)

Appreciated Media (OTCMKTS:AMEFF) and Paramount Skydance (NASDAQ:PSKY) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Appreciated Media and Paramount Skydance, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Appreciated Media	0	0	0	0	0.00
Paramount Skydance	5	4	0	0	1.44

Paramount Skydance has a consensus target price of $12.43, suggesting a potential downside of 24.99%. Given Appreciated Media’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Appreciated Media is more favorable than Paramount Skydance.

Profitability

This table compares Appreciated Media and Paramount Skydance’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Appreciated Media	N/A	N/A	N/A
Paramount Skydance	-0.05%	4.51%	1.68%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

73.0% of Paramount Skydance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Paramount Skydance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Appreciated Media and Paramount Skydance”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Appreciated Media	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Paramount Skydance	$29.21 billion	0.38	-$6.19 billion	($0.03)	-552.33

Appreciated Media has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Paramount Skydance.

Summary

Paramount Skydance beats Appreciated Media on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Appreciated Media

Appreciated Media Holdings, Inc. is a worldwide film and television media production packager. It engages in producing independent films, made-for-television movies, and TV series for global B2B distribution. The company was founded by Kirk Edward Shaw, Tony Zhang, and Norman Tsui on October 1, 2014 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Canada.

About Paramount Skydance

Paramount Global is a media and entertainment company which creates premium content and experiences for audiences. The company’s portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount , Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. Paramount Global, formerly known as ViacomCBS Inc., is based in NEW YORK.