HRI vs. FOUR, RSG, LOOK, PAY, OCN, CSN, MXCT, TRMR, 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), Lookers (LOOK), PayPoint (PAY), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Chesnara (CSN), MaxCyte (MXCT), Tremor International (TRMR), Hurricane Energy (HUR), and Accrol Group (ACRL). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
4imprint Group (LON:FOUR) and Herald (LON:HRI) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
4imprint Group has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herald has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
82.3% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Herald shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Herald shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
4imprint Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 7,365, indicating a potential upside of 47.49%. Given 4imprint Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe 4imprint Group is more favorable than Herald.
Herald has a net margin of 93.12% compared to 4imprint Group's net margin of 8.20%. 4imprint Group's return on equity of 92.73% beat Herald's return on equity.
4imprint Group received 214 more outperform votes than Herald when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.71% of users gave 4imprint Group an outperform vote while only 67.76% of users gave Herald an outperform vote.
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.
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 0.64 beat Herald's score of -1.70 indicating that 4imprint Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
4imprint Group beats Herald on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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