FCN vs. EXPO, ICFI, G, BAH, SOFI, FOUR, NOV, SPSC, VNT, and KVYO
Should you be buying FTI Consulting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FTI Consulting include Exponent (EXPO), ICF International (ICFI), Genpact (G), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), NOV (NOV), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Vontier (VNT), and Klaviyo (KVYO). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN) and Exponent (NASDAQ:EXPO) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and dividends.
FTI Consulting currently has a consensus price target of $255.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.61%. Exponent has a consensus price target of $97.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.02%. Given Exponent's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Exponent is more favorable than FTI Consulting.
FTI Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Exponent. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exponent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.3% of Exponent shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Exponent shares are owned by 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.
Exponent has a net margin of 18.69% compared to FTI Consulting's net margin of 7.88%. Exponent's return on equity of 28.49% beat FTI Consulting's return on equity.
FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.12, suggesting that its share price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Exponent has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Exponent received 77 more outperform votes than FTI Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.02% of users gave Exponent an outperform vote while only 54.42% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.
In the previous week, FTI Consulting had 10 more articles in the media than Exponent. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for FTI Consulting and 1 mentions for Exponent. FTI Consulting's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Exponent's score of -0.01 indicating that FTI Consulting is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Exponent beats FTI Consulting on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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