Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN – Get Free Report) and Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations for Huron Consulting Group and Korn/Ferry International, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Huron Consulting Group | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Korn/Ferry International | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.80 |
Huron Consulting Group currently has a consensus target price of $184.25, suggesting a potential upside of 22.58%. Korn/Ferry International has a consensus target price of $78.50, suggesting a potential downside of 5.50%. Given Huron Consulting Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Huron Consulting Group is more favorable than Korn/Ferry International.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Huron Consulting Group | 6.38% | 32.33% | 9.29% |
| Korn/Ferry International | 9.44% | 14.34% | 7.31% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Huron Consulting Group and Korn/Ferry International”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Huron Consulting Group | $1.70 billion | 1.41 | $105.04 million | $6.68 | 22.50 |
| Korn/Ferry International | $2.94 billion | 1.45 | $277.43 million | $5.24 | 15.85 |
Korn/Ferry International has higher revenue and earnings than Huron Consulting Group. Korn/Ferry International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Huron Consulting Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
93.9% of Huron Consulting Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Korn/Ferry International shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Huron Consulting Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Korn/Ferry International shares are held by 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.
Risk and Volatility
Huron Consulting Group has a beta of 0.06, indicating that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Korn/Ferry International has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Huron Consulting Group beats Korn/Ferry International on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group Inc., a professional services firm, provides consultancy services in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Healthcare, Education, and Commercial. The Healthcare segment provides financial and operational performance improvement consulting services; digital offerings, spanning technology and analytic-related services; software products; organizational transformation services; revenue cycle managed and outsourcing services; financial and capital advisory consulting services; and strategy and innovation consulting services to national and regional health systems, academic and community health systems, federal health system, public, children’s and critical access hospitals, physician practices and medical groups, payors, and long-term care or post-acute providers. The Education segment provides digital solutions, spanning technology, and analytic-related services; Huron Research product suite, a software suite designed to facilitate and enhance research administration service delivery and compliance; research-focused consulting and managed services; strategy and operations consulting services for public and private colleges and universities, research institutes, and other education-related organizations. The Commercial segment delivers digital services and software products, and financial advisory services to financial, energy and utilities, professional and business services, life science, consumer products, and industrials and manufacturing industries, as well as public sector and nonprofit organizations. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
About Korn/Ferry International
Korn Ferry, together with its subsidiaries, provides organizational consulting services worldwide. It operates through four segments: Consulting, Digital, Executive Search, and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) & Professional Search. The company provides executive search services to recruit board level, chief executive, other senior executive, and general management talent of organizations. It also offers organizational strategy, assessment and succession, leadership and professional development, and total reward services. In addition, the company provides RPO, business project, professional search, and outsource recruiting solutions. Further, the company offers tech-enabled solutions that identify structures, roles, capabilities, and behaviors to drive businesses. It serves public and private companies, and middle market and emerging growth companies, as well as government and non-profit organizations. The company was formerly known as Korn/Ferry International and changed its name to Korn Ferry in January 2019. Korn Ferry was founded in 1969 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
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