FCN vs. EXPO, ICFI, G, BAH, RHI, NOV, SOFI, COHR, ULS, and PSN
Should you be buying FTI Consulting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FTI Consulting include Exponent (EXPO), ICF International (ICFI), Genpact (G), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Robert Half (RHI), NOV (NOV), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Coherent (COHR), UL Solutions (ULS), and Parsons (PSN). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN) and Exponent (NASDAQ:EXPO) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
FTI Consulting currently has a consensus target price of $255.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.65%. Exponent has a consensus target price of $97.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.88%. Given FTI Consulting's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FTI Consulting is more favorable than Exponent.
99.4% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Exponent shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Exponent shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Exponent has a net margin of 18.72% compared to FTI Consulting's net margin of 8.51%. Exponent's return on equity of 28.50% beat FTI Consulting's return on equity.
Exponent received 75 more outperform votes than FTI Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.02% of users gave Exponent an outperform vote while only 54.37% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.
FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Exponent has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
FTI Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Exponent. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exponent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FTI Consulting had 3 more articles in the media than Exponent. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for FTI Consulting and 17 mentions for Exponent. FTI Consulting's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Exponent's score of 0.16 indicating that FTI Consulting is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
FTI Consulting beats Exponent on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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