CBZ vs. FCN, EXPO, DNB, ICFI, HURN, VSEC, CRAI, ACTG, FC, and MG
Should you be buying CBIZ stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CBIZ include FTI Consulting (FCN), Exponent (EXPO), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), ICF International (ICFI), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), VSE (VSEC), CRA International (CRAI), Acacia Research (ACTG), Franklin Covey (FC), and Mistras Group (MG). These companies are all part of the "research & consulting services" industry.
FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN) and CBIZ (NYSE:CBZ) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
FTI Consulting presently has a consensus target price of $255.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.98%. CBIZ has a consensus target price of $63.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.81%. Given CBIZ's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FTI Consulting is more favorable than CBIZ.
CBIZ received 123 more outperform votes than FTI Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.37% of users gave CBIZ an outperform vote while only 54.37% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.
99.4% of FTI Consulting shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of CBIZ shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of FTI Consulting shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of CBIZ shares are held 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 a net margin of 8.51% compared to FTI Consulting's net margin of 7.65%. CBIZ's return on equity of 15.97% beat FTI Consulting's return on equity.
FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.1, indicating that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CBIZ has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, FTI Consulting had 8 more articles in the media than CBIZ. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for FTI Consulting and 2 mentions for CBIZ. FTI Consulting's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat CBIZ's score of 0.58 indicating that CBIZ is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FTI Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than CBIZ. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CBIZ, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
FTI Consulting beats CBIZ on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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