FCN vs. EFX, EXPO, DNB, CBZ, ICFI, HURN, VSEC, CRAI, ACTG, and FC
Should you be buying FTI Consulting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FTI Consulting include Equifax (EFX), Exponent (EXPO), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), CBIZ (CBZ), ICF International (ICFI), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), VSE (VSEC), CRA International (CRAI), Acacia Research (ACTG), and Franklin Covey (FC). These companies are all part of the "research & consulting services" industry.
FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN) and Equifax (NYSE:EFX) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
FTI Consulting presently has a consensus target price of $255.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.72%. Equifax has a consensus target price of $270.19, suggesting a potential upside of 16.77%. Given FTI Consulting's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FTI Consulting is more favorable than Equifax.
Equifax received 370 more outperform votes than FTI Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.76% of users gave Equifax an outperform vote while only 54.37% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.
FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.1, suggesting that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equifax has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Equifax had 13 more articles in the media than FTI Consulting. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Equifax and 5 mentions for FTI Consulting. FTI Consulting's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Equifax's score of 0.57 indicating that FTI Consulting is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Equifax has higher revenue and earnings than FTI Consulting. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equifax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.4% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Equifax shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Equifax shares are owned 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.
Equifax has a net margin of 10.42% compared to FTI Consulting's net margin of 8.51%. Equifax's return on equity of 19.08% beat FTI Consulting's return on equity.
Summary
Equifax beats FTI Consulting on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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