How are media stocks doing?
Cable, broadcast and media companies. Here is how they have done as a group against the S&P 500, and which of them are leading and lagging.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Lagging
Media stocks are down 9% over the past year as an equal-weighted group, against +16% for the S&P 500. 3 of 13 beat the index. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) leads at +73% and Charter Communications (CHTR) trails at −62%. Over the past month the group is −8%, against +3% for the S&P.
The past year
The group against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Select a stock in the table to chart it against the group.
All 13 media stocks
Sorted by the past year’s return. Select a row to chart the stock against the group, or its ticker to open its page. Select a column to sort.
| Stock | P3 | 1M | 3M | YTD | 1Y | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WBD Warner Bros. Discovery | 46Middling | +9.8% | +14% | +7% | +73% | Speculative Pop |
| NYT New York Times | 70Strong | −0.4% | −12% | −4% | +20% | Bellwether |
| SIRI Sirius XM | 47Middling | −8.2% | −14% | +33% | +17% | Hot Hand |
| NWSA News | 38Middling | −0.9% | +5% | +11% | +8% | Speculative Pop |
| FOXA Fox | 23Weak | −4.2% | +12% | −15% | +4% | Broken Year |
| DIS Walt Disney | 35Middling | +2.1% | +13% | −5% | −3% | Bottom Fished |
| OMC Omnicom | 32Weak | −3.7% | −7% | −5% | −4% | Show-Me Grower |
| NXST Nexstar Media | 12Weak | −5.0% | −8% | −20% | −21% | Sleepy Staple |
| LBTYA Liberty Global (Series A) | 34Middling | −18.5% | −21% | −22% | −23% | Show-Me Grower |
| LBTYK Liberty Global (Series C) | 24Weak | −18.1% | −19% | −23% | −25% | Show-Me Grower |
| CMCSA Comcast | 17Weak | −17.9% | −14% | −26% | −33% | Broken Year |
| PSKY Paramount Skydance | 11Weak | −5.8% | +2% | −27% | −47% | Bottom Fished |
| CHTR Charter Communications | 9Weak | −26.5% | −21% | −50% | −62% | Sleepy Staple |
How to read this page
How it’s measured. A group of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over the past five years once the market’s own moves are taken out: the same groups as Stox’s co-movement clusters. The group is equal-weighted, so each company counts the same whatever its size, and returns are share-price changes from daily closes.
Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
An equal-weighted group can read quite differently from a sector fund, which gives the biggest companies the most weight.
P3 is Stox’s combined score of market beat, staying power and business growth, from 0 to 100. Type is the stock’s Stox Atlas type. Both describe the past year, not what comes next.
Groups are built from how stocks trade rather than from industry labels, so a company can sit with stocks from another sector that move like it.
This page is information, not investment advice. About our data and methods ›