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Future (FUTR) Competitors

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GBX 857 -7.00 (-0.81%)
(As of 12:11 PM ET)

FUTR vs. ERM, BMY, DODS, RCH, LBG, SNWS, CNCT, QRT, HYNS, and XLM

Should you be buying Future stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Future include Euromoney Institutional Investor (ERM), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Dods Group (DODS), Reach (RCH), LBG Media (LBG), Smiths News (SNWS), Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT), The Quarto Group (QRT), Haynes Publishing Group (HYNS), and XLMedia (XLM). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.

Future vs.

Euromoney Institutional Investor (LON:ERM) and Future (LON:FUTR) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.

In the previous week, Future had 6 more articles in the media than Euromoney Institutional Investor. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Future and 0 mentions for Euromoney Institutional Investor. Future's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Euromoney Institutional Investor's score of 0.00 indicating that Future is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Euromoney Institutional Investor Neutral
Future Neutral

Future received 140 more outperform votes than Euromoney Institutional Investor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.24% of users gave Future an outperform vote while only 60.43% of users gave Euromoney Institutional Investor an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Euromoney Institutional InvestorOutperform Votes
252
60.43%
Underperform Votes
165
39.57%
FutureOutperform Votes
392
74.24%
Underperform Votes
136
25.76%

99.0% of Future shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Future shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Future has a net margin of 11.69% compared to Euromoney Institutional Investor's net margin of 0.00%. Future's return on equity of 8.43% beat Euromoney Institutional Investor's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Euromoney Institutional InvestorN/A N/A N/A
Future 11.69%8.43%5.49%

Future has a consensus price target of GBX 1,059.25, indicating a potential upside of 23.60%. Given Future's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Future is more favorable than Euromoney Institutional Investor.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Euromoney Institutional Investor
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Future
2 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.20

Future has higher revenue and earnings than Euromoney Institutional Investor. Future is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Euromoney Institutional Investor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Euromoney Institutional Investor£365.16M4.37N/A£0.1014,600.00
Future£775.70M1.22£90.70M£0.761,127.63

Euromoney Institutional Investor pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Future pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Euromoney Institutional Investor pays out 182.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Future pays out 394.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

Future beats Euromoney Institutional Investor on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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FUTR vs. The Competition

MetricFuturePublishing IndustryCommunication SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£944.41M£1.16B£2.66B£1.40B
Dividend Yield0.35%6.82%6.93%11.79%
P/E Ratio1,127.631,065.37312.361,555.80
Price / Sales1.22167.85126.80210,506.32
Price / Cash52.5222.8616.0133.06
Price / Book0.902.093.432.81
Net Income£90.70M£58.55M£110.93M£153.14M
7 Day Performance-4.25%-0.95%-0.45%-0.48%
1 Month Performance1.92%1.00%-1.71%7.21%
1 Year Performance-8.98%19.07%9.44%93.59%

Future Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FUTR
Future
1.4128 of 5 stars
GBX 857
-0.8%
GBX 1,059.25
+23.6%
N/A£944.41M£775.70M1,127.632,937Dividend Announcement
ERM
Euromoney Institutional Investor
N/AGBX 1,460
+0.1%
N/AN/A£1.60B£365.16M14,600.002,567High Trading Volume
BMY
Bloomsbury Publishing
2.4491 of 5 stars
GBX 654
flat
GBX 825
+26.1%
+57.2%£532.62M£342.65M1,666.6734,300Positive News
High Trading Volume
DODS
Dods Group
N/AGBX 75
flat
N/A+0.0%£436.55M£25.50M-125.00929Gap Down
RCH
Reach
N/AGBX 87
+0.9%
N/A+11.9%£274.21M£554.20M663.083,706
LBG
LBG Media
N/AGBX 131
-0.8%
GBX 170
+29.8%
+51.0%£273.90M£82.54M3,300.00446Gap Down
SNWS
Smiths News
3.4085 of 5 stars
GBX 61
-0.3%
GBX 80
+31.1%
+31.2%£144.63M£1.08B680.001,489
CNCT
Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L)
N/AGBX 25.60
+1.6%
N/A+0.0%£63.41M£1.44B-1.413Gap Up
QRT
The Quarto Group
N/AGBX 140
+12.0%
N/AN/A£57.25M£131.15M538.46305Gap Down
HYNS
Haynes Publishing Group
N/AN/AN/A+0.0%£41.86M£36.89M47.57251
XLM
XLMedia
N/AGBX 12.05
-1.6%
N/A+69.0%£31.24M£43.76M-93.46100

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This page (LON:FUTR) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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