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Reach (RCH) Competitors

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GBX 75 +0.20 (+0.27%)
As of 05/22/2025 12:42 PM Eastern

RCH vs. FUTR, BMY, DODS, LBG, SNWS, CNCT, QRT, HYNS, QRTR, and XLM

Should you be buying Reach stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Reach include Future (FUTR), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Dods Group (DODS), LBG Media (LBG), 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.

Reach vs.

Reach (LON:RCH) and Future (LON:FUTR) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and community ranking.

Future received 338 more outperform votes than Reach when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.10% of users gave Future an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Reach an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ReachOutperform Votes
54
66.67%
Underperform Votes
27
33.33%
FutureOutperform Votes
392
74.10%
Underperform Votes
137
25.90%

Reach has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Future has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

77.9% of Reach shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of Future shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of Reach shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Future shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Reach pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Future pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Reach pays out 53.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Future pays out 3.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Future has a net margin of 11.69% compared to Reach's net margin of 7.49%. Future's return on equity of 8.41% beat Reach's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Reach7.49% 6.35% 5.03%
Future 11.69%8.41%5.49%

Future has higher revenue and earnings than Reach. Reach is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Future, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Reach£554.87M0.43£41.55M£13.145.71
Future£722.78M0.98£84.51M£78.058.38

Future has a consensus target price of GBX 1,060, indicating a potential upside of 62.03%. Given Future's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Future is more favorable than Reach.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Reach
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Future
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

In the previous week, Future had 28 more articles in the media than Reach. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Future and 0 mentions for Reach. Future's average media sentiment score of 0.01 beat Reach's score of 0.00 indicating that Future is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Reach Neutral
Future Neutral

Summary

Future beats Reach on 18 of the 19 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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RCH vs. The Competition

MetricReachPublishing IndustryCommunication SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£236.66M£1.42B£3.52B£2.62B
Dividend Yield8.82%7.09%6.77%5.05%
P/E Ratio5.719.6421.63129.34
Price / Sales0.4374.41114.07221,585.85
Price / Cash7.4615.7116.3428.03
Price / Book0.351.344.263.79
Net Income£41.55M£59.19M£144.72M£5.88B
7 Day Performance-1.32%-0.48%1.05%0.30%
1 Month Performance-1.70%4.36%6.28%21.29%
1 Year Performance-3.10%8.48%9.52%129.43%

Reach Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RCH
Reach
N/AGBX 75
+0.3%
N/A-4.3%£236.66M£554.87M5.713,706Gap Up
FUTR
Future
3.5634 of 5 stars
GBX 757
+2.9%
GBX 1,060
+40.0%
-34.6%£819.68M£722.78M9.702,937Trending News
Dividend Announcement
Insider Trade
BMY
Bloomsbury Publishing
3.0121 of 5 stars
GBX 625
+0.6%
GBX 825
+32.0%
-12.7%£504.33M£382.40M13.3734,300Trending News
Earnings Report
DODS
Dods Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£436.55M£25.50M-125.00929Gap Down
LBG
LBG Media
1.145 of 5 stars
GBX 95
-0.6%
GBX 170
+78.9%
-3.8%£200.50M£80.68M29.34446
SNWS
Smiths News
N/AGBX 57
-0.7%
GBX 95
+66.7%
-4.4%£136.82M£1.11B5.371,489Dividend Increase
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 6.50
-3.8%
N/AN/A£20.96M£39.41M-0.35100

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This page (LON:RCH) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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