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Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.
Why Investors Should Pay Attention to This Value Stock
Finding good stocks at good prices, and discovering which companies are trading under their true value, are what value investors like to focus on. So, the Value Style Score takes into account ratios like P/E, PEG, Price/Sales, and Price/Cash Flow to highlight the most attractive and discounted stocks.
Paramount Global-B (PARA)
Paramount Global is a global media, streaming and entertainment provider offering content through well-known brands, including CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+ and Pluto TV. It also operates Paramount Pictures.
PARA sits at a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), holds a Value Style Score of A, and has a VGM Score of A. Compared to the Media Conglomerates industry's P/E of 17.4X, shares of Paramount Global-B are trading at a forward P/E of 9.4X. PARA also has a PEG Ratio of 0.3, a Price/Cash Flow ratio of 0.5X, and a Price/Sales ratio of 0.2X.
A company's earnings performance is important for value investors as well. For fiscal 2024, four analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for PARA, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.02 to $1.17 per share. PARA also holds an average earnings surprise of 382.5%.
PARA should be on investors' short lists because of its impressive earnings and valuation fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Value and VGM Style Scores.
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