LBG vs. DODS, BMY, RCH, SNWS, CNCT, QRT, HYNS, QRTR, XLM, and INM
Should you be buying LBG Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LBG Media include Dods Group (DODS), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Reach (RCH), Smiths News (SNWS), Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT), The Quarto Group (QRT), Haynes Publishing Group (HYNS), The Quarto Group (QRTR), XLMedia (XLM), and Independent News & Media (INM). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.
LBG Media vs. Its Competitors
Dods Group (LON:DODS) and LBG Media (LON:LBG) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
LBG Media has a consensus price target of GBX 170, suggesting a potential upside of 66.67%. Given LBG Media's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LBG Media is more favorable than Dods Group.
LBG Media has higher revenue and earnings than Dods Group. Dods Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LBG Media, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, LBG Media had 1 more articles in the media than Dods Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for LBG Media and 0 mentions for Dods Group. LBG Media's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Dods Group's score of 0.00 indicating that LBG Media is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
29.4% of LBG Media shares are owned by institutional investors. 70.1% of LBG Media shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dods Group received 77 more outperform votes than LBG Media when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.31% of users gave LBG Media an outperform vote while only 64.96% of users gave Dods Group an outperform vote.
LBG Media has a net margin of 8.55% compared to Dods Group's net margin of 0.00%. LBG Media's return on equity of 10.41% beat Dods Group's return on equity.
Summary
LBG Media beats Dods Group on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:LBG) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff