Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, newspaper publisher Gannett
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Gannett's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Gannett facts
| Headquarters (founded) | McLean, Va. (1906) |
| Market Cap | $3.1 billion |
| Industry | Publishing |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $5.2 billion |
| Management | CEO Gracia Martore Chief Marketing Officer Maryam Banikarim |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 23.7% |
| Cash/Debt | $157.5 million / $1.7 billion |
| Dividend Yield | 6% |
| Competitors |
The McClatchy Co. The New York Times Co. Tribune |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 27% of the 444 members who have rated Gannett believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, CoreAndExplore, succinctly summed up the bear case for our community:
There's a clearly defined ceiling, but no floor whatsoever with declining revenues and high levels of debt. The newspaper business is consolidating to the point where only a couple of national papers ... and a bevy of low-profit regional papers survive, and even then the outcome for those is not exactly rosy.
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