Communication Services
Live Price
Offline$9.01
+4.40% today
1Y Change
+41.56%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026
Coverage: 246 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (LEE) is a Communication Services stock with a market cap of $50.00M and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $9.01 and up 41.6% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -8.0%, EPS growth of -41.4%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue -8.0%, EPS -41.4%, free cash flow +12.4% with operating margin 2.7% and ROIC 2.3%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at price/sales 0.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines LEE price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Communication Services peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
LEE is 22.83 pts ahead over the shared 1Y window.
LEE had 42.02 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
LEE beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.
LEE
+41.56%
Normalized return
SPY
+18.73%
S&P 500
Excess Return
+22.83 pts
Relative to SPY
LEE Max Drawdown
-51.15%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for LEE and SPY.
| Year | LEE | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +97.39% | +6.71% | +90.68 pts | LEE |
| 2025 | -29.69% | +11.19% | -40.88 pts | SPY |
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