FUTR vs. ERM, DMGT, BMY, DODS, RCH, LBG, SNWS, CNCT, QRT, and HYNS
Should you be buying Future stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Future include Euromoney Institutional Investor (ERM), Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Dods Group (DODS), Reach (RCH), LBG Media (LBG), Smiths News (SNWS), Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT), The Quarto Group (QRT), and Haynes Publishing Group (HYNS). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.
Future (LON:FUTR) and Euromoney Institutional Investor (LON:ERM) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Future received 137 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.
Future currently has a consensus price target of GBX 956.50, suggesting a potential downside of 9.76%. Given Future's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Future is more favorable than Euromoney Institutional Investor.
95.1% of Future shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Future shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Future had 53 more articles in the media than Euromoney Institutional Investor. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Future and 1 mentions for Euromoney Institutional Investor. Euromoney Institutional Investor's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Future's score of 0.17 indicating that Euromoney Institutional Investor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Future pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Euromoney Institutional Investor pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. 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. 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 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.
Summary
Future beats Euromoney Institutional Investor on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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