BFH vs. HURN, PAYO, GOTU, DSGR, IAS, STER, NVEE, OPEN, STGW, and VVX
Should you be buying Bread Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bread Financial include Huron Consulting Group (HURN), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR), Integral Ad Science (IAS), Sterling Check (STER), NV5 Global (NVEE), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Stagwell (STGW), and V2X (VVX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN) and Bread Financial (NYSE:BFH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Huron Consulting Group has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bread Financial has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its share price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
93.9% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Bread Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Bread Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Huron Consulting Group currently has a consensus price target of $129.33, suggesting a potential upside of 38.38%. Bread Financial has a consensus price target of $36.55, suggesting a potential upside of 3.70%. Given Bread Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Huron Consulting Group is more favorable than Bread Financial.
In the previous week, Bread Financial had 12 more articles in the media than Huron Consulting Group. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Bread Financial and 2 mentions for Huron Consulting Group. Bread Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Huron Consulting Group's score of -0.10 indicating that Huron Consulting Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Huron Consulting Group received 391 more outperform votes than Bread Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.95% of users gave Huron Consulting Group an outperform vote while only 13.95% of users gave Bread Financial an outperform vote.
Bread Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Huron Consulting Group. Bread Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Huron Consulting Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bread Financial has a net margin of 13.87% compared to Bread Financial's net margin of 4.47%. Huron Consulting Group's return on equity of 26.24% beat Bread Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Huron Consulting Group beats Bread Financial on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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