Huron Consulting Group (HURN) Competitors

FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN) and Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of FCN or HURN?

99.4% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is FCN or HURN more profitable?

FTI Consulting has a net margin of 7.57% compared to Huron Consulting Group's net margin of 5.80%. Huron Consulting Group's return on equity of 21.51% beat FTI Consulting's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FTI Consulting	7.57%	13.15%	8.31%
Huron Consulting Group	5.80%	21.51%	8.38%

Which has more risk and volatility, FCN or HURN?

FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Huron Consulting Group has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor FCN or HURN?

Huron Consulting Group received 181 more outperform votes than FTI Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.80% of users gave Huron Consulting Group an outperform vote while only 54.63% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FTI Consulting	Outperform Votes 236 54.63%	Underperform Votes 196 45.37%
Huron Consulting Group	Outperform Votes 417 67.80%	Underperform Votes 198 32.20%

Do analysts recommend FCN or HURN?

FTI Consulting presently has a consensus price target of $199.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.61%. Huron Consulting Group has a consensus price target of $155.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.87%. Given FTI Consulting's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FTI Consulting is more favorable than Huron Consulting Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FTI Consulting	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Huron Consulting Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has higher valuation & earnings, FCN or HURN?

FTI Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Huron Consulting Group. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Huron Consulting Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
FTI Consulting	$3.70B	1.56	$274.89M	$7.80	20.64
Huron Consulting Group	$1.52B	1.69	$62.48M	$6.29	23.13

Does the media prefer FCN or HURN?

In the previous week, FTI Consulting had 1 more articles in the media than Huron Consulting Group. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for FTI Consulting and 15 mentions for Huron Consulting Group. Huron Consulting Group's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat FTI Consulting's score of 0.65 indicating that Huron Consulting Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FTI Consulting	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	8 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Huron Consulting Group	10 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Huron Consulting Group beats FTI Consulting on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.