FCN vs. EFX, EXPO, DNB, CBZ, ICFI, HURN, VSEC, CRAI, ACTG, and FC
Should you be buying FTI Consulting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FTI Consulting include Equifax (EFX), Exponent (EXPO), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), CBIZ (CBZ), ICF International (ICFI), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), VSE (VSEC), CRA International (CRAI), Acacia Research (ACTG), and Franklin Covey (FC). These companies are all part of the "research & consulting services" industry.
FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN) and Equifax (NYSE:EFX) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Equifax received 370 more outperform votes than FTI Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.76% of users gave Equifax an outperform vote while only 54.37% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.
99.4% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Equifax shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Equifax shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
FTI Consulting presently has a consensus target price of $255.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.44%. Equifax has a consensus target price of $270.19, indicating a potential upside of 15.82%. Given FTI Consulting's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FTI Consulting is more favorable than Equifax.
Equifax has higher revenue and earnings than FTI Consulting. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equifax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.08, suggesting that its share price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equifax has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Equifax has a net margin of 10.42% compared to FTI Consulting's net margin of 8.51%. Equifax's return on equity of 19.08% beat FTI Consulting's return on equity.
In the previous week, Equifax had 1 more articles in the media than FTI Consulting. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Equifax and 7 mentions for FTI Consulting. Equifax's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat FTI Consulting's score of 1.06 indicating that Equifax is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Equifax beats FTI Consulting on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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