BMY vs. RCH, LBG, SNWS, FUTR, TM17, TIG, NEXN, SFOR, CCPC, and SAA
Should you be buying Bloomsbury Publishing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bloomsbury Publishing include Reach (RCH), LBG Media (LBG), Smiths News (SNWS), Future (FUTR), Team17 Group (TM17), Team Internet Group (TIG), Nexxen International (NEXN), S4 Capital (SFOR), Celtic (CCPC), and M&C Saatchi (SAA). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Reach (LON:RCH) and Bloomsbury Publishing (LON:BMY) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation and risk.
Bloomsbury Publishing received 197 more outperform votes than Reach when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.39% of users gave Bloomsbury Publishing an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Reach an outperform vote.
Reach currently has a consensus price target of GBX 75, suggesting a potential downside of 6.72%. Given Bloomsbury Publishing's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Reach is more favorable than Bloomsbury Publishing.
Reach has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomsbury Publishing has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Reach has higher revenue and earnings than Bloomsbury Publishing. Reach is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomsbury Publishing, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bloomsbury Publishing has a net margin of 7.68% compared to Bloomsbury Publishing's net margin of 3.78%. Reach's return on equity of 11.67% beat Bloomsbury Publishing's return on equity.
In the previous week, Bloomsbury Publishing had 2 more articles in the media than Reach. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Bloomsbury Publishing and 0 mentions for Reach. Reach's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Bloomsbury Publishing's score of 0.00 indicating that Bloomsbury Publishing is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Reach pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Bloomsbury Publishing pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Reach pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bloomsbury Publishing pays out 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
78.6% of Reach shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Reach shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Bloomsbury Publishing beats Reach on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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