BFAM vs. LBTYA, BYD, MAT, REYN, PVH, LBTYK, BC, GIL, HRB, and CHH
Should you be buying Bright Horizons Family Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bright Horizons Family Solutions include Liberty Global (LBTYA), Boyd Gaming (BYD), Mattel (MAT), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), PVH (PVH), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Brunswick (BC), Gildan Activewear (GIL), H&R Block (HRB), and Choice Hotels International (CHH). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYA) and Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
37.2% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of Liberty Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty Global currently has a consensus target price of $24.75, indicating a potential upside of 51.38%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a consensus target price of $102.38, indicating a potential downside of 4.06%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Liberty Global is more favorable than Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a net margin of 3.07% compared to Bright Horizons Family Solutions' net margin of -54.08%. Liberty Global's return on equity of 12.24% beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity.
In the previous week, Liberty Global had 3 more articles in the media than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Liberty Global and 4 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' score of 1.11 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Liberty Global. Liberty Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bright Horizons Family Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liberty Global received 194 more outperform votes than Bright Horizons Family Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.59% of users gave Liberty Global an outperform vote while only 58.08% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.
Liberty Global has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bright Horizons Family Solutions beats Liberty Global on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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