SNWS vs. LBG, RCH, BMY, CCP, CCPA, STVG, FDEV, TMO, DEVO, and PEBB
Should you be buying Smiths News stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smiths News include LBG Media (LBG), Reach (RCH), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Celtic (CCP), Celtic (CCPA), STV Group (STVG), Frontier Developments (FDEV), Time Out Group (TMO), Devolver Digital (DEVO), and The Pebble Group (PEBB). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
LBG Media (LON:LBG) and Smiths News (LON:SNWS) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Smiths News has higher revenue and earnings than LBG Media. Smiths News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LBG Media, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Smiths News received 1 more outperform votes than LBG Media when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave Smiths News an outperform vote while only 90.00% of users gave LBG Media an outperform vote.
LBG Media has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smiths News has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Smiths News had 6 more articles in the media than LBG Media. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Smiths News and 0 mentions for LBG Media. LBG Media's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Smiths News' score of 0.00 indicating that Smiths News is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LBG Media currently has a consensus target price of GBX 120, indicating a potential upside of 60.00%. Smiths News has a consensus target price of GBX 80, indicating a potential upside of 29.03%. Given Smiths News' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe LBG Media is more favorable than Smiths News.
Smiths News has a net margin of 2.16% compared to Smiths News' net margin of 0.87%. Smiths News' return on equity of 0.92% beat LBG Media's return on equity.
25.6% of LBG Media shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of Smiths News shares are held by institutional investors. 65.5% of LBG Media shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.4% of Smiths News shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Smiths News beats LBG Media on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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