MEG vs. G, EXPO, ICFI, ASTH, HURN, RMR, HCKT, BWMN, III, and JUNE
Should you be buying Montrose Environmental Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Montrose Environmental Group include Genpact (G), Exponent (EXPO), ICF International (ICFI), Astrana Health (ASTH), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), The RMR Group (RMR), The Hackett Group (HCKT), Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), Information Services Group (III), and Junee (JUNE). These companies are all part of the "management consulting services" industry.
Montrose Environmental Group (NYSE:MEG) and Genpact (NYSE:G) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.
87.9% of Montrose Environmental Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Genpact shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.9% of Montrose Environmental Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Genpact shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Genpact has higher revenue and earnings than Montrose Environmental Group. Montrose Environmental Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genpact, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Genpact had 8 more articles in the media than Montrose Environmental Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Genpact and 4 mentions for Montrose Environmental Group. Genpact's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Montrose Environmental Group's score of 0.42 indicating that Genpact is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Genpact received 282 more outperform votes than Montrose Environmental Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.30% of users gave Genpact an outperform vote while only 61.42% of users gave Montrose Environmental Group an outperform vote.
Genpact has a net margin of 14.21% compared to Montrose Environmental Group's net margin of -4.55%. Genpact's return on equity of 22.71% beat Montrose Environmental Group's return on equity.
Montrose Environmental Group presently has a consensus price target of $46.25, indicating a potential downside of 1.62%. Genpact has a consensus price target of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.94%. Given Genpact's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Genpact is more favorable than Montrose Environmental Group.
Montrose Environmental Group has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genpact has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Genpact beats Montrose Environmental Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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