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Herald (HRI) Competitors

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GBX 2,304.82 +9.82 (+0.43%)
As of 07/3/2025 12:00 PM Eastern

HRI vs. FOUR, RSG, OCN, PAY, LOOK, CSN, TRMR, MXCT, HUR, and ACRL

Should you be buying Herald stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herald include 4imprint Group (FOUR), Resolute Mining (RSG), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), PayPoint (PAY), Lookers (LOOK), Chesnara (CSN), Tremor International (TRMR), MaxCyte (MXCT), Hurricane Energy (HUR), and Accrol Group (ACRL). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Herald vs. Its Competitors

4imprint Group (LON:FOUR) and Herald (LON:HRI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.

83.3% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Herald shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Herald shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Herald has lower revenue, but higher earnings than 4imprint Group. Herald is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 4imprint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
4imprint Group£1.71B0.79£139.98M£314.0512.10
Herald£162.63M7.15£175.20M£346.546.65

4imprint Group has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herald has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

4imprint Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 7,365, indicating a potential upside of 93.81%. Given 4imprint Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe 4imprint Group is more favorable than Herald.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
4imprint Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Herald
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Herald has a net margin of 107.72% compared to 4imprint Group's net margin of 8.20%. 4imprint Group's return on equity of 78.95% beat Herald's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
4imprint Group8.20% 78.95% 35.62%
Herald 107.72%14.78%9.22%

In the previous week, 4imprint Group had 2 more articles in the media than Herald. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for 4imprint Group and 0 mentions for Herald. 4imprint Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Herald's score of -1.02 indicating that 4imprint Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
4imprint Group Neutral
Herald Negative

Summary

4imprint Group beats Herald on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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HRI vs. The Competition

MetricHeraldAsset Management IndustryFinance SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.16B£1.25B£12.03B£2.97B
Dividend Yield0.14%4.36%5.57%5.02%
P/E Ratio6.6521.8620.07146.58
Price / Sales7.152,374.8225.64240,166.96
Price / Cash18.8660.8121.5027.97
Price / Book0.951.212.285.31
Net Income£175.20M£264.68M£1.00B£5.90B
7 Day Performance0.65%0.54%2.19%0.95%
1 Month Performance3.82%2.78%4.44%5.17%
1 Year Performance3.82%6.57%540.82%80.78%

Herald Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HRI
Herald
N/AGBX 2,304.82
+0.4%
N/A+4.1%£1.16B£162.63M6.656,600Negative News
FOUR
4imprint Group
3.8594 of 5 stars
GBX 3,665.02
+1.4%
GBX 7,365
+101.0%
-35.0%£1.30B£1.71B11.672,300
RSG
Resolute Mining
3.0237 of 5 stars
GBX 30.40
+0.7%
GBX 38
+25.0%
+3.4%£809.96M£817.76M66.0340,000News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
OCN
Ocean Wilsons
N/AGBX 1,485
-0.7%
N/A+15.8%£654.75M£647.52M10.6174,200High Trading Volume
PAY
PayPoint
N/AGBX 833.20
-0.1%
N/A+28.3%£596.66M£301.14M17.111,260Dividend Increase
Gap Up
LOOK
Lookers
N/AN/AN/AN/A£503.22M£4.48B811.2538News Coverage
CSN
Chesnara
N/AGBX 297.72
+0.4%
N/A+16.3%£453.01M£412.72M108.595,700Trending News
TRMR
Tremor International
N/AN/AN/AN/A£293.13M£343.77M-1,829.09167
MXCT
MaxCyte
N/AGBX 147.69
-7.7%
N/A-99.3%£194.96M£57.52M-5.4180Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HUR
Hurricane Energy
N/AN/AN/AN/A£155.02M£275.50M194.755,660High Trading Volume
ACRL
Accrol Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£124.36M£221.16M-3,900.00456

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This page (LON:HRI) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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