J vs. OMC, STX, FDS, BAH, TRU, GRAB, CPAY, RTO, RBA, and APTV
Should you be buying Jacobs Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jacobs Solutions include Omnicom Group (OMC), Seagate Technology (STX), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), TransUnion (TRU), Grab (GRAB), Corpay (CPAY), Rentokil Initial (RTO), RB Global (RBA), and Aptiv (APTV). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC) and Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Omnicom Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Jacobs Solutions. Omnicom Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jacobs Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Jacobs Solutions had 14 more articles in the media than Omnicom Group. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Jacobs Solutions and 20 mentions for Omnicom Group. Jacobs Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Omnicom Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Omnicom Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.0% of Omnicom Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Omnicom Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Omnicom Group has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jacobs Solutions has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Omnicom Group received 292 more outperform votes than Jacobs Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.58% of users gave Jacobs Solutions an outperform vote while only 49.14% of users gave Omnicom Group an outperform vote.
Omnicom Group pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Jacobs Solutions pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Omnicom Group pays out 37.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jacobs Solutions pays out 22.4% 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. Jacobs Solutions has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Omnicom Group presently has a consensus target price of $104.40, suggesting a potential upside of 7.34%. Jacobs Solutions has a consensus target price of $156.82, suggesting a potential upside of 13.37%. Given Omnicom Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Jacobs Solutions is more favorable than Omnicom Group.
Omnicom Group has a net margin of 9.96% compared to Omnicom Group's net margin of 3.83%. Jacobs Solutions' return on equity of 38.23% beat Omnicom Group's return on equity.
Summary
Omnicom Group beats Jacobs Solutions on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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