Future (FUTR) Competitors

Euromoney Institutional Investor (LON:ERM) and Future (LON:FUTR) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.

Do analysts recommend ERM or FUTR?

Future has a consensus price target of GBX 976.67, suggesting a potential upside of 39.62%. Given Future's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Future is more favorable than Euromoney Institutional Investor.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Euromoney Institutional Investor	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Future	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.25

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ERM or FUTR?

Future received 140 more outperform votes than Euromoney Institutional Investor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.10% of users gave Future an outperform vote while only 60.43% of users gave Euromoney Institutional Investor an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Euromoney Institutional Investor	Outperform Votes 252 60.43%	Underperform Votes 165 39.57%
Future	Outperform Votes 392 74.10%	Underperform Votes 137 25.90%

Is ERM or FUTR more profitable?

Future has a net margin of 11.69% compared to Euromoney Institutional Investor's net margin of 0.00%. Future's return on equity of 8.41% beat Euromoney Institutional Investor's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Euromoney Institutional Investor	N/A	N/A	N/A
Future	11.69%	8.41%	5.49%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, ERM or FUTR?

Future has higher revenue and earnings than Euromoney Institutional Investor. Euromoney Institutional Investor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Future, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Euromoney Institutional Investor	£365.16M	0.00	N/A	£0.10	N/A
Future	£722.78M	1.05	£84.51M	£78.05	8.96

Does the media prefer ERM or FUTR?

In the previous week, Future had 27 more articles in the media than Euromoney Institutional Investor. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Future and 0 mentions for Euromoney Institutional Investor. Future's average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat Euromoney Institutional Investor's score of 0.00 indicating that Future is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Euromoney Institutional Investor	Neutral
Future	Neutral

Is ERM or FUTR a better dividend stock?

Euromoney Institutional Investor pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.18 per share. Future pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Euromoney Institutional Investor pays out 182.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Future pays out 3.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Future is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in ERM or FUTR?

99.0% of Future shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Future shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Future beats Euromoney Institutional Investor on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.