LBG vs. FUTR, DODS, BMY, RCH, SNWS, CNCT, QRT, HYNS, QRTR, and XLM
Should you be buying LBG Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LBG Media include Future (FUTR), Dods Group (DODS), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Reach (RCH), Smiths News (SNWS), Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT), The Quarto Group (QRT), Haynes Publishing Group (HYNS), The Quarto Group (QRTR), and XLMedia (XLM). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.
LBG Media vs. Its Competitors
Future (LON:FUTR) and LBG Media (LON:LBG) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Future had 54 more articles in the media than LBG Media. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Future and 0 mentions for LBG Media. LBG Media's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Future's score of 0.00 indicating that LBG Media is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Future has a net margin of 11.69% compared to LBG Media's net margin of 8.55%. LBG Media's return on equity of 10.41% beat Future's return on equity.
Future has higher revenue and earnings than LBG Media. Future is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LBG Media, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.0% of Future shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.4% of LBG Media shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Future shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 70.1% of LBG Media shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Future currently has a consensus target price of GBX 920.67, indicating a potential upside of 22.70%. LBG Media has a consensus target price of GBX 170, indicating a potential upside of 68.32%. Given LBG Media's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LBG Media is more favorable than Future.
Future has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LBG Media has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
LBG Media beats Future on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:LBG) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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