LBG vs. SNWS, RCH, BMY, CCP, STVG, PEBB, TMO, DEVO, FDEV, and CAU
Should you be buying LBG Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LBG Media include Smiths News (SNWS), Reach (RCH), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Celtic (CCP), STV Group (STVG), The Pebble Group (PEBB), Time Out Group (TMO), Devolver Digital (DEVO), Frontier Developments (FDEV), and Centaur Media (CAU). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Smiths News (LON:SNWS) and LBG Media (LON:LBG) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Smiths News had 5 more articles in the media than LBG Media. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Smiths News and 4 mentions for LBG Media. Smiths News' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat LBG Media's score of -0.01 indicating that LBG Media is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
61.8% of Smiths News shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.6% of LBG Media shares are held by institutional investors. 13.4% of Smiths News shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 65.3% of LBG Media shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Smiths News presently has a consensus price target of GBX 85, indicating a potential upside of 60.98%. LBG Media has a consensus price target of GBX 120, indicating a potential upside of 57.21%. Given LBG Media's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Smiths News is more favorable than LBG Media.
Smiths News has higher revenue and earnings than LBG Media. Smiths News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LBG Media, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LBG Media has a net margin of 8.34% compared to LBG Media's net margin of 2.30%. Smiths News' return on equity of 9.54% beat LBG Media's return on equity.
LBG Media received 1 more outperform votes than Smiths News when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Smiths News an outperform vote while only 90.00% of users gave LBG Media an outperform vote.
Smiths News has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LBG Media has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Smiths News beats LBG Media on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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