FOUR vs. YOU, NFG, NFC, ASCL, TRS, HNT, NEXN, SFOR, TRMR, and SAA
Should you be buying 4imprint Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of 4imprint Group include YouGov (YOU), Next 15 Group (NFG), Next Fifteen Communications Group (NFC), Ascential (ASCL), Tarsus Group (TRS), Huntsworth (HNT), Nexxen International (NEXN), S4 Capital (SFOR), Tremor International (TRMR), and M&C Saatchi (SAA). These companies are all part of the "advertising agencies" industry.
4imprint Group (LON:FOUR) and YouGov (LON:YOU) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
4imprint Group received 94 more outperform votes than YouGov when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.64% of users gave 4imprint Group an outperform vote while only 67.27% of users gave YouGov an outperform vote.
78.4% of 4imprint Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.8% of YouGov shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of 4imprint Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of YouGov shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
4imprint Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 7,365, suggesting a potential upside of 13.48%. YouGov has a consensus target price of GBX 1,350, suggesting a potential upside of 37.47%. Given YouGov's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe YouGov is more favorable than 4imprint Group.
4imprint Group has higher revenue and earnings than YouGov. 4imprint Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YouGov, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
4imprint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 168 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. YouGov pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. 4imprint Group pays out 7,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. YouGov pays out 4,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
YouGov has a net margin of 8.41% compared to 4imprint Group's net margin of 8.01%. 4imprint Group's return on equity of 77.32% beat YouGov's return on equity.
4imprint Group has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YouGov has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, 4imprint Group had 2 more articles in the media than YouGov. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for 4imprint Group and 3 mentions for YouGov. YouGov's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat 4imprint Group's score of 0.20 indicating that YouGov is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
4imprint Group beats YouGov on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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