FC vs. HURN, VSEC, CRAI, ACTG, MG, OMEX, VRSK, EFX, FCN, and EXPO
Should you be buying Franklin Covey stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Covey include Huron Consulting Group (HURN), VSE (VSEC), CRA International (CRAI), Acacia Research (ACTG), Mistras Group (MG), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), Equifax (EFX), FTI Consulting (FCN), and Exponent (EXPO). These companies are all part of the "research & consulting services" industry.
Franklin Covey (NYSE:FC) and Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Franklin Covey received 86 more outperform votes than Huron Consulting Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.16% of users gave Franklin Covey an outperform vote while only 67.28% of users gave Huron Consulting Group an outperform vote.
69.9% of Franklin Covey shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Huron Consulting Group shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Franklin Covey shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Huron Consulting Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Huron Consulting Group has higher revenue and earnings than Franklin Covey. Huron Consulting Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin Covey, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Franklin Covey has a net margin of 6.13% compared to Huron Consulting Group's net margin of 4.67%. Franklin Covey's return on equity of 23.23% beat Huron Consulting Group's return on equity.
Franklin Covey has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Huron Consulting Group has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Franklin Covey currently has a consensus target price of $66.33, suggesting a potential upside of 79.28%. Huron Consulting Group has a consensus target price of $130.75, suggesting a potential upside of 48.48%. Given Franklin Covey's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Franklin Covey is more favorable than Huron Consulting Group.
In the previous week, Huron Consulting Group had 5 more articles in the media than Franklin Covey. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Huron Consulting Group and 5 mentions for Franklin Covey. Huron Consulting Group's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Franklin Covey's score of 0.32 indicating that Huron Consulting Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Franklin Covey beats Huron Consulting Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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