INF vs. PSON, ERM, FUTR, DMGT, BMY, DODS, RCH, LBG, SNWS, and CNCT
Should you be buying Informa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Informa include Pearson (PSON), Euromoney Institutional Investor (ERM), Future (FUTR), Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Dods Group (DODS), Reach (RCH), LBG Media (LBG), Smiths News (SNWS), and Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.
Informa (LON:INF) and Pearson (LON:PSON) are both communication services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Informa currently has a consensus target price of GBX 865.33, suggesting a potential upside of 1.76%. Pearson has a consensus target price of GBX 1,092.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.24%. Given Pearson's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Pearson is more favorable than Informa.
Informa pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Pearson pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Informa pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pearson pays out 4,339.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pearson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pearson received 14 more outperform votes than Informa when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.81% of users gave Informa an outperform vote while only 54.50% of users gave Pearson an outperform vote.
Informa has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pearson. Pearson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Informa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.1% of Informa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Pearson shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Informa shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Pearson shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Informa had 12 more articles in the media than Pearson. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Informa and 0 mentions for Pearson. Informa's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Pearson's score of 0.00 indicating that Informa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Informa has a net margin of 13.14% compared to Pearson's net margin of 10.29%. Pearson's return on equity of 9.04% beat Informa's return on equity.
Informa has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pearson has a beta of 0.32, suggesting that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Informa beats Pearson on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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