EXPN vs. DATA, AFM, RCDO, FNTL, ELIX, SAG, GTLY, PPHC, MANO, and MJH
Should you be buying Experian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Experian include GlobalData (DATA), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), Ricardo (RCDO), Fintel (FNTL), Elixirr International (ELIX), Science Group (SAG), Gateley (GTLY), Public Policy (PPHC), Manolete Partners (MANO), and MJ Hudson Group (MJH). These companies are all part of the "consulting services" industry.
GlobalData (LON:DATA) and Experian (LON:EXPN) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Experian has higher revenue and earnings than GlobalData. Experian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GlobalData, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
21.4% of GlobalData shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.1% of Experian shares are held by institutional investors. 67.1% of GlobalData shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Experian shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Experian received 588 more outperform votes than GlobalData when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.50% of users gave Experian an outperform vote while only 66.46% of users gave GlobalData an outperform vote.
GlobalData has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Experian has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
GlobalData pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Experian pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. GlobalData pays out 12,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Experian pays out 4,466.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Experian had 1 more articles in the media than GlobalData. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Experian and 1 mentions for GlobalData. GlobalData's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Experian's score of 0.48 indicating that Experian is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Experian has a consensus target price of GBX 3,394, indicating a potential downside of 5.96%. Given GlobalData's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Experian is more favorable than GlobalData.
Experian has a net margin of 16.89% compared to Experian's net margin of 11.28%. Experian's return on equity of 58.06% beat GlobalData's return on equity.
Summary
Experian beats GlobalData on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding EXPN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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