LBG vs. FUTR, BMY, DODS, RCH, SNWS, CNCT, QRT, HYNS, QRTR, and XLM
Should you be buying LBG Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LBG Media include Future (FUTR), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Dods Group (DODS), Reach (RCH), Smiths News (SNWS), Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT), The Quarto Group (QRT), Haynes Publishing Group (HYNS), The Quarto Group (QRTR), and XLMedia (XLM). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.
LBG Media vs.
Future (LON:FUTR) and LBG Media (LON:LBG) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Future received 380 more outperform votes than LBG Media when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.31% of users gave LBG Media an outperform vote while only 74.10% of users gave Future an outperform vote.
99.0% of Future shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.4% of LBG Media shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Future shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 70.1% of LBG Media 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.
Future has a net margin of 11.69% compared to LBG Media's net margin of 8.55%. LBG Media's return on equity of 10.41% beat Future's return on equity.
Future presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,060, suggesting a potential upside of 58.21%. LBG Media has a consensus target price of GBX 170, suggesting a potential upside of 87.47%. Given LBG Media's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe LBG Media is more favorable than Future.
In the previous week, Future had 28 more articles in the media than LBG Media. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Future and 2 mentions for LBG Media. Future's average media sentiment score of 0.01 beat LBG Media's score of 0.00 indicating that Future is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Future has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LBG Media has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Future has higher revenue and earnings than LBG Media. Future is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LBG Media, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Future beats LBG Media on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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This page (LON:LBG) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff