INF vs. PSON, WPP, AUTO, AAF, RMV, ITV, VOD, FUTR, BMY, and RCH
Should you be buying Informa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Informa include Pearson (PSON), WPP (WPP), Auto Trader Group (AUTO), Airtel Africa (AAF), Rightmove (RMV), ITV (ITV), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), Future (FUTR), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), and Reach (RCH). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Pearson (LON:PSON) and Informa (LON:INF) are both communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Pearson received 14 more outperform votes than Informa when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.81% of users gave Informa an outperform vote while only 54.50% of users gave Pearson an outperform vote.
Pearson currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,092.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.60%. Informa has a consensus target price of GBX 865.33, suggesting a potential upside of 2.24%. Given Informa's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Pearson is more favorable than Informa.
Informa has a net margin of 13.14% compared to Informa's net margin of 10.29%. Informa's return on equity of 9.04% beat Pearson's return on equity.
80.2% of Pearson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.0% of Informa shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Pearson shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Informa shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pearson pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Informa pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Pearson pays out 4,339.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Informa pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pearson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Informa had 4 more articles in the media than Pearson. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Informa and 1 mentions for Pearson. Informa's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Pearson's score of 0.26 indicating that Pearson is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Informa has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pearson. Pearson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Informa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pearson has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Informa has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pearson and Informa tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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