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LBG Media (LBG) Competitors

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GBX 102 +3.00 (+3.03%)
As of 12:12 PM Eastern

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Dods Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
LBG Media
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Dods Group£25.50M0.00N/A-£0.60N/A
LBG Media£80.68M2.67£6.90M£3.2431.50

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.

Company Overall Sentiment
Dods Group Neutral
LBG Media Positive

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Dods GroupOutperform Votes
89
64.96%
Underperform Votes
48
35.04%
LBG MediaOutperform Votes
12
92.31%
Underperform Votes
1
7.69%

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Dods GroupN/A N/A N/A
LBG Media 8.55%10.41%12.85%

Summary

LBG Media beats Dods Group on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LBG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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LBG vs. The Competition

MetricLBG MediaPublishing IndustryCommunication SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£215.27M£1.36B£3.42B£2.93B
Dividend YieldN/A7.09%6.77%4.90%
P/E Ratio31.509.6721.17125.70
Price / Sales2.6774.51117.78243,028.65
Price / Cash5.0115.7116.5228.07
Price / Book3.121.344.404.71
Net Income£6.90M£59.19M£146.67M£5.91B
7 Day Performance14.09%0.71%0.60%13.20%
1 Month Performance6.69%0.20%7.35%16.80%
1 Year Performance-10.53%7.46%10.47%78.27%

LBG Media Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LBG
LBG Media
1.9288 of 5 stars
GBX 102
+3.0%
GBX 170
+66.7%
-13.2%£215.27M£80.68M31.50446
DODS
Dods Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£436.55M£25.50M-125.00929Gap Down
BMY
Bloomsbury Publishing
2.8053 of 5 stars
GBX 509
flat
GBX 825
+62.1%
-15.5%£410.73M£382.40M10.8934,300
RCH
Reach
N/AGBX 73.40
+0.4%
N/A-15.4%£231.61M£554.87M5.593,706News Coverage
SNWS
Smiths News
N/AGBX 57.80
-1.4%
GBX 95
+64.4%
-6.7%£138.75M£1.11B5.441,489Dividend Increase
Gap Down
CNCT
Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£63.41M£1.44B-1.413Gap Up
QRT
The Quarto Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£57.25M£131.15M538.46305Gap Down
HYNS
Haynes Publishing Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£41.86M£36.89M47.57251
QRTR
The Quarto Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£25.15M£126.28M5.97330Gap Up
High Trading Volume
XLM
XLMedia
N/AGBX 6.58
flat
N/AN/A£21.21M£39.41M-0.36100Gap Up
INM
Independent News & Media
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.44M£191M14.86800

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This page (LON:LBG) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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