BMY vs. RCH, LBG, FUTR, SNWS, TM17, TIG, NEXN, SFOR, SAA, and TMO
Should you be buying Bloomsbury Publishing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bloomsbury Publishing include Reach (RCH), LBG Media (LBG), Future (FUTR), Smiths News (SNWS), Team17 Group (TM17), Team Internet Group (TIG), Nexxen International (NEXN), S4 Capital (SFOR), M&C Saatchi (SAA), and Time Out Group (TMO). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Reach (LON:RCH) and Bloomsbury Publishing (LON:BMY) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Reach pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. Bloomsbury Publishing pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Reach pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bloomsbury Publishing pays out 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Reach has higher revenue and earnings than Bloomsbury Publishing. Reach is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomsbury Publishing, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Reach currently has a consensus target price of GBX 75, indicating a potential upside of 5.63%. Given Bloomsbury Publishing's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Reach is more favorable than Bloomsbury Publishing.
80.0% of Reach shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.9% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Reach shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bloomsbury Publishing has a net margin of 7.68% compared to Bloomsbury Publishing's net margin of 3.78%. Reach's return on equity of 11.67% beat Bloomsbury Publishing's return on equity.
Reach has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomsbury Publishing has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Reach had 1 more articles in the media than Bloomsbury Publishing. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Reach and 1 mentions for Bloomsbury Publishing. Bloomsbury Publishing's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Reach's score of 0.67 indicating that Reach is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bloomsbury Publishing received 197 more outperform votes than Reach when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.39% of users gave Bloomsbury Publishing an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Reach an outperform vote.
Summary
Bloomsbury Publishing beats Reach on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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