FUTU vs. PSN, COHR, DUOL, JEF, SEIC, MKTX, SF, CFLT, NOV, and RHI
Should you be buying Futu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Futu include Parsons (PSN), Coherent (COHR), Duolingo (DUOL), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), SEI Investments (SEIC), MarketAxess (MKTX), Stifel Financial (SF), Confluent (CFLT), NOV (NOV), and Robert Half (RHI).
Futu (NASDAQ:FUTU) and Parsons (NYSE:PSN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Futu has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Parsons. Futu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parsons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Parsons had 7 more articles in the media than Futu. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Parsons and 6 mentions for Futu. Futu's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Parsons' score of 0.34 indicating that Futu is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Futu has a net margin of 42.77% compared to Parsons' net margin of 2.96%. Futu's return on equity of 18.46% beat Parsons' return on equity.
Parsons received 69 more outperform votes than Futu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.42% of users gave Parsons an outperform vote while only 45.71% of users gave Futu an outperform vote.
Futu currently has a consensus price target of $62.83, indicating a potential downside of 1.81%. Parsons has a consensus price target of $79.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.11%. Given Parsons' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Parsons is more favorable than Futu.
98.0% of Parsons shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.2% of Futu shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 56.0% of Parsons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Futu has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Parsons has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Parsons beats Futu on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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