FUTR vs. BMY, RCH, ASCL, HTWS, YOU, BCG, GAMA, NFG, KWS, and TM17
Should you be buying Future stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Future include Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Reach (RCH), Ascential (ASCL), Helios Towers (HTWS), YouGov (YOU), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), Gamma Communications (GAMA), Next 15 Group (NFG), Keywords Studios (KWS), and Team17 Group (TM17). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Future (LON:FUTR) and Bloomsbury Publishing (LON:BMY) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Future has a net margin of 13.96% compared to Bloomsbury Publishing's net margin of 7.67%. Future's return on equity of 11.60% beat Bloomsbury Publishing's return on equity.
Future has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomsbury Publishing has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Future has higher revenue and earnings than Bloomsbury Publishing. Future is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomsbury Publishing, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Future received 133 more outperform votes than Bloomsbury Publishing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.56% of users gave Future an outperform vote while only 68.39% of users gave Bloomsbury Publishing an outperform vote.
Future pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Bloomsbury Publishing pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Future pays out 312.5% 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 4,800.0% 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 presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,366.33, indicating a potential upside of 53.69%. Bloomsbury Publishing has a consensus target price of GBX 475, indicating a potential upside of 18.45%. Given Future's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Future is more favorable than Bloomsbury Publishing.
In the previous week, Future had 102 more articles in the media than Bloomsbury Publishing. MarketBeat recorded 103 mentions for Future and 1 mentions for Bloomsbury Publishing. Bloomsbury Publishing's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Future's score of 0.19 indicating that Bloomsbury Publishing is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
81.2% of Future shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Future shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Future beats Bloomsbury Publishing on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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