ICFI vs. HURN, EXPO, RMR, HCKT, FCN, MEG, G, ZETA, FLYW, and MIR
Should you be buying ICF International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICF International include Huron Consulting Group (HURN), Exponent (EXPO), The RMR Group (RMR), The Hackett Group (HCKT), FTI Consulting (FCN), Montrose Environmental Group (MEG), Genpact (G), Zeta Global (ZETA), Flywire (FLYW), and Mirion Technologies (MIR).
ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI) and Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Huron Consulting Group received 53 more outperform votes than ICF International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.38% of users gave ICF International an outperform vote while only 67.00% of users gave Huron Consulting Group an outperform vote.
94.1% of ICF International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of ICF International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ICF International presently has a consensus target price of $162.75, indicating a potential upside of 11.27%. Huron Consulting Group has a consensus target price of $137.67, indicating a potential upside of 60.75%. Given Huron Consulting Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Huron Consulting Group is more favorable than ICF International.
Huron Consulting Group has a net margin of 4.67% compared to ICF International's net margin of 4.21%. Huron Consulting Group's return on equity of 18.76% beat ICF International's return on equity.
ICF International has higher revenue and earnings than Huron Consulting Group. Huron Consulting Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICF International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Huron Consulting Group had 10 more articles in the media than ICF International. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Huron Consulting Group and 9 mentions for ICF International. Huron Consulting Group's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat ICF International's score of 0.41 indicating that Huron Consulting Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ICF International has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less 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.
Summary
Huron Consulting Group beats ICF International on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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