SizeDaily Journal (DJCO) is a United States Communication Services company (Publishing: Newspapers) with a market value of $885M, the 2325th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $642.22 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 28.2%, against -0.4% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 2nd highest of 10 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 23.4% over the last twelve months (peer median -2.7%); the operating margin is 13.4% (peer median 5.6%).
Valuation It trades at 4.8× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 1.6× (most expensive of 10).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 22% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +12%, so the hurdle is +10 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
Relative performance
Six months, rebased to 100: Daily Journal against the median of its 9 peers (local-currency closes).
Daily Journal financials
Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-09-30. TTM = trailing twelve months.
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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Daily Journal is the large dot.
Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Daily Journal is the large dot.
Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Daily Journal is the large dot.
Daily Journal competitors and peer comparison
How Daily Journal compares with its peers
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
Daily Journal against its 9 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
Measure
DJCO
Peer median
Rank in peer set
1-month return
+0.1%
-0.2%
5th highest of 10
6-month return
+28.2%
-0.4%
2nd highest of 10
Distance from 52-week high
-7.3%
-18.8%
3rd highest of 10
Revenue growth (TTM)
+23.4%
-2.7%
highest of 10
Operating margin
13.4%
5.6%
3rd highest of 10
EV / Sales
4.8×
1.6×
most expensive of 10
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)
22.0%
-1.2%
most demanding of 10
Growth delivered (Del g)
+11.9%
+1.0%
highest of 10
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)
+10.1 pp
-6.2 pp
4th most demanding of 10
EV / EBITDA
35.0×
7.4×
most expensive of 8
Net debt / EBITDA
-31.4×
1.0×
least indebted of 8
Peer table
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
Which companies are Daily Journal's closest peers?
The cockpit's peer set: USA TODAY (TDAY), Alma Media (ALMA.HE), Zhejiang Huamei (000607.SZ), Sanoma (SANOMA.HE), RCS MediaGroup (RCS.MI), Transcontinental (TCL-A.TO), TX Group AG (TXGN.SW), Caltagirone Editore (CED.MI).
Is Daily Journal expensive compared with its peers?
On ev / sales it trades at 4.8× against a peer median of 1.6×, most expensive of 10 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 22% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +12%, so the hurdle is +10 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Daily Journal stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +28.2% against -0.4% for the median peer; over one year +58.1%.