J vs. FDS, OMC, GEN, TRU, BAH, CPAY, STX, GRAB, RBA, and RTO
Should you be buying Jacobs Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jacobs Solutions include FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Omnicom Group (OMC), Gen Digital (GEN), TransUnion (TRU), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Corpay (CPAY), Seagate Technology (STX), Grab (GRAB), RB Global (RBA), and Rentokil Initial (RTO). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) and FactSet Research Systems (NYSE:FDS) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
Jacobs Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $156.82, indicating a potential upside of 14.99%. FactSet Research Systems has a consensus price target of $443.56, indicating a potential downside of 1.48%. Given Jacobs Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Jacobs Solutions is more favorable than FactSet Research Systems.
85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.2% of FactSet Research Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of FactSet Research Systems shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
FactSet Research Systems has a net margin of 22.72% compared to Jacobs Solutions' net margin of 3.83%. FactSet Research Systems' return on equity of 34.36% beat Jacobs Solutions' return on equity.
In the previous week, FactSet Research Systems had 1 more articles in the media than Jacobs Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for FactSet Research Systems and 7 mentions for Jacobs Solutions. FactSet Research Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Jacobs Solutions' score of 0.92 indicating that FactSet Research Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FactSet Research Systems received 225 more outperform votes than Jacobs Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.58% of users gave Jacobs Solutions an outperform vote while only 42.98% of users gave FactSet Research Systems an outperform vote.
Jacobs Solutions has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FactSet Research Systems has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Jacobs Solutions pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. FactSet Research Systems pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Jacobs Solutions pays out 22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FactSet Research Systems pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Jacobs Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than FactSet Research Systems. Jacobs Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FactSet Research Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
FactSet Research Systems beats Jacobs Solutions on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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