CBZ vs. FCN, EXPO, DNB, ICFI, HURN, VSEC, CRAI, ACTG, FC, and MG
Should you be buying CBIZ stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CBIZ include FTI Consulting (FCN), Exponent (EXPO), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), ICF International (ICFI), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), VSE (VSEC), CRA International (CRAI), Acacia Research (ACTG), Franklin Covey (FC), and Mistras Group (MG). These companies are all part of the "research & consulting services" industry.
CBIZ (NYSE:CBZ) and FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
FTI Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than CBIZ. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CBIZ, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CBIZ currently has a consensus price target of $63.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.52%. FTI Consulting has a consensus price target of $255.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.11%. Given FTI Consulting's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe FTI Consulting is more favorable than CBIZ.
87.4% of CBIZ shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of CBIZ shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of FTI Consulting 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.
CBIZ has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.09, meaning that its stock price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CBIZ received 123 more outperform votes than FTI Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.37% of users gave CBIZ an outperform vote while only 54.37% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.
FTI Consulting has a net margin of 8.51% compared to CBIZ's net margin of 7.65%. FTI Consulting's return on equity of 15.97% beat CBIZ's return on equity.
In the previous week, FTI Consulting had 3 more articles in the media than CBIZ. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for FTI Consulting and 4 mentions for CBIZ. CBIZ's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat FTI Consulting's score of 1.13 indicating that CBIZ is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
FTI Consulting beats CBIZ on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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