FCN vs. EXPO, ICFI, G, BAH, DUOL, NOV, RHI, ULS, SOFI, and WEX Should you be buying FTI Consulting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FTI Consulting include Exponent (EXPO), ICF International (ICFI), Genpact (G), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Duolingo (DUOL), NOV (NOV), Robert Half (RHI), UL Solutions (ULS), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), and WEX (WEX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN ) and Exponent (NASDAQ:EXPO ) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
99.4% of FTI Consulting shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Exponent shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of FTI Consulting shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Exponent shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, FTI Consulting had 1 more articles in the media than Exponent. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for FTI Consulting and 8 mentions for Exponent. FTI Consulting's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Exponent's score of 0.06 indicating that FTI Consulting is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FTI Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Exponent. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exponent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FTI Consulting presently has a consensus price target of $255.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.30%. Exponent has a consensus price target of $99.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.54%. Given FTI Consulting's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FTI Consulting is more favorable than Exponent.
FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.1, indicating that its stock price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Exponent has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Exponent received 76 more outperform votes than FTI Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.09% of users gave Exponent an outperform vote while only 54.37% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.
Exponent has a net margin of 18.72% compared to FTI Consulting's net margin of 8.51%. Exponent's return on equity of 28.13% beat FTI Consulting's return on equity.
Summary FTI Consulting beats Exponent on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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