LBG vs. SNWS, RCH, BMY, TMO, CCP, CCPA, STVG, FDEV, SAA, and PEBB
Should you be buying LBG Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LBG Media include Smiths News (SNWS), Reach (RCH), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Time Out Group (TMO), Celtic (CCP), Celtic (CCPA), STV Group (STVG), Frontier Developments (FDEV), M&C Saatchi (SAA), and The Pebble Group (PEBB). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
LBG Media (LON:LBG) and Smiths News (LON:SNWS) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
25.6% of LBG Media shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of Smiths News shares are owned by institutional investors. 65.5% of LBG Media shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.4% of Smiths News shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Smiths News had 14 more articles in the media than LBG Media. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Smiths News and 1 mentions for LBG Media. LBG Media's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Smiths News' score of -0.03 indicating that LBG Media is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Smiths News has higher revenue and earnings than LBG Media. Smiths News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LBG Media, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Smiths News has a net margin of 2.16% compared to LBG Media's net margin of 0.87%. LBG Media's return on equity of 0.92% beat Smiths News' return on equity.
LBG Media presently has a consensus target price of GBX 120, suggesting a potential upside of 41.18%. Smiths News has a consensus target price of GBX 80, suggesting a potential upside of 29.14%. Given LBG Media's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LBG Media is more favorable than Smiths News.
LBG Media has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smiths News has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Smiths News received 1 more outperform votes than LBG Media when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave Smiths News an outperform vote while only 90.00% of users gave LBG Media an outperform vote.
Summary
Smiths News beats LBG Media on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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