BAH vs. FCN, G, CPAY, STX, OMC, J, APTV, FDS, KSPI, and BR
Should you be buying Booz Allen Hamilton stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Booz Allen Hamilton include FTI Consulting (FCN), Genpact (G), Corpay (CPAY), Seagate Technology (STX), Omnicom Group (OMC), Jacobs Solutions (J), Aptiv (APTV), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), and Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
FTI Consulting (NYSE:FCN) and Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
99.4% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Booz Allen Hamilton shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of FTI Consulting shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Booz Allen Hamilton shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
FTI Consulting has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Booz Allen Hamilton. FTI Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Booz Allen Hamilton, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FTI Consulting has a net margin of 8.51% compared to FTI Consulting's net margin of 3.96%. FTI Consulting's return on equity of 65.31% beat Booz Allen Hamilton's return on equity.
FTI Consulting has a beta of 0.1, suggesting that its stock price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Booz Allen Hamilton has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Booz Allen Hamilton received 307 more outperform votes than FTI Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.01% of users gave Booz Allen Hamilton an outperform vote while only 54.37% of users gave FTI Consulting an outperform vote.
In the previous week, FTI Consulting had 2 more articles in the media than Booz Allen Hamilton. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for FTI Consulting and 7 mentions for Booz Allen Hamilton. Booz Allen Hamilton's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat FTI Consulting's score of 0.89 indicating that FTI Consulting is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FTI Consulting currently has a consensus price target of $255.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.30%. Booz Allen Hamilton has a consensus price target of $145.11, indicating a potential downside of 4.71%. Given Booz Allen Hamilton's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe FTI Consulting is more favorable than Booz Allen Hamilton.
Summary
FTI Consulting beats Booz Allen Hamilton on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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