ASTH vs. FCN, G, EXPO, ICFI, MEG, HURN, RMR, HCKT, BWMN, and III
Should you be buying Astrana Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astrana Health include FTI Consulting (FCN), Genpact (G), Exponent (EXPO), ICF International (ICFI), Montrose Environmental Group (MEG), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), The RMR Group (RMR), The Hackett Group (HCKT), Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), and Information Services Group (III). These companies are all part of the "management consulting services" industry.
Astrana Health (NASDAQ:ASTH) and FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
FTI Consulting has a net margin of 8.51% compared to Astrana Health's net margin of 4.29%. FTI Consulting's return on equity of 15.97% beat Astrana Health's return on equity.
Astrana Health presently has a consensus target price of $48.25, indicating a potential upside of 16.46%. FTI Consulting has a consensus target price of $255.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.72%. Given FTI Consulting's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe FTI Consulting is more favorable than Astrana Health.
52.8% of Astrana Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of Astrana Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
FTI Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Astrana Health. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Astrana Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Astrana Health had 3 more articles in the media than FTI Consulting. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Astrana Health and 4 mentions for FTI Consulting. FTI Consulting's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Astrana Health's score of 0.78 indicating that FTI Consulting is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FTI Consulting received 227 more outperform votes than Astrana Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Astrana Health an outperform vote while only 54.37% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.
Astrana Health has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.1, indicating that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
FTI Consulting beats Astrana Health on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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