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LEE vs NWS

Side-by-side comparison of Lee Enterprises Incorporated (LEE) and News Corporation (NWS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both LEE and NWS operate in Newspapers/Magazines (Consumer Discretionary), so they compete in similar markets.
  • NWS is the larger of the two at $12.70B, about 61.2x LEE ($207.5M).
  • Over the past year, LEE is up 3.8% and NWS is down 3.2% - LEE leads by 7.0 points.
  • NWS has been more active in the news (6 items in the past 4 weeks vs 4 for LEE).
  • LEE has more recent analyst coverage (1 ratings vs 0 for NWS).
PerformanceLEE+3.78%NWS-3.23%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricLEENWS
Company
Lee Enterprises Incorporated
News Corporation
Price
$8.93+6.63%
$30.25-0.48%
Market cap
$207.5M
$12.70B
1M return
+5.25%
+9.62%
1Y return
+3.78%
-3.23%
Industry
Newspapers/Magazines
Newspapers/Magazines
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
News (4w)
4
6
Recent ratings
1
0
LEE

Lee Enterprises Incorporated

Lee Enterprises, Incorporated provides local news and information, and advertising services in the United States. The company offers print and digital editions of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and publications; and digital services, including Web hosting and content management for other content producers. It also provides advertising and marketing services, such as audience extension, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, web and mobile production, social media services, and reputation monitoring and management, as well as digital marketing services to small to medium businesses, including search engine marketing and social media. In addition, the company offers integrated digital publishing and content management solutions for creating, distributing, and monetizing multimedia content for daily and weekly newspapers, as well as universities, television stations, and niche publications. Further, it provides commercial printing services; distributes third party publications; and operates a digital marketing agency. Additionally, the company publishes 9 daily newspapers, and weekly newspapers and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises, Incorporated was founded in 1890 and is based in Davenport, Iowa.

NWS

News Corporation

News Corporation, a media and information services company, focuses on creating and distributing content for consumers and businesses worldwide. It operates in six segments: Digital Real Estate Services, Subscription Video Services, Dow Jones, Book Publishing, News Media, and Other. The company distributes content and data products, including The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron's, MarketWatch, and Investor's Business Daily through various media channels, such as newspapers, newswires, websites, applications for mobile devices, tablets and e-book readers, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, live journalism, videos, and podcasts. It also owns and operates daily, Sunday, weekly, and bi-weekly newspapers comprising The Australian, The Weekend Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Herald Sun, Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Sunday Mail, The Advertiser, Sunday Mail, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, The Times, The Sunday Times, and New York Post, as well as digital mastheads and other websites. In addition, the company publishes general fiction, nonfiction, children's, and religious books; provides video sports, entertainment, and news services to pay-TV subscribers and other commercial licensees primarily through cable, satellite, and internet distribution; and broadcasts rights to live sporting events. Further, it offers property and property-related advertising and services on its websites and mobile applications; online real estate services; and professional software and service products, as well as financial services. The company is headquartered in New York, New York.

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