Head to Head Analysis: Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN) versus Concentrix (NASDAQ:CNXC)

Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN) and Concentrix (NASDAQ:CNXC) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

93.9% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Concentrix shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Concentrix shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Huron Consulting Group and Concentrix”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Huron Consulting Group	$1.70 billion	1.83	$105.04 million	$6.68	29.29
Concentrix	$9.83 billion	0.21	-$1.28 billion	($38.90)	-0.85

Huron Consulting Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Concentrix. Concentrix 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.

Volatility & Risk

Huron Consulting Group has a beta of 0.09, meaning that its share price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Concentrix has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Huron Consulting Group and Concentrix, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Huron Consulting Group	0	1	6	0	2.86
Concentrix	1	2	3	0	2.33

Huron Consulting Group currently has a consensus price target of $200.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.46%. Concentrix has a consensus price target of $33.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.52%. Given Huron Consulting Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Huron Consulting Group is more favorable than Concentrix.

Profitability

This table compares Huron Consulting Group and Concentrix’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Huron Consulting Group	6.38%	32.33%	9.29%
Concentrix	-23.99%	25.00%	6.07%

Summary

Huron Consulting Group beats Concentrix on 12 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 Concentrix

Concentrix Corporation engages in the provision of technology-infused customer experience (CX) solutions worldwide. The company provides CX process optimization, technology innovation, front- and back-office automation, analytics, and business transformation services, across various channels of communication, such as voice, chat, email, social media, asynchronous messaging, and custom applications. It also offers customer lifecycle management; customer experience/user experience strategy and design; analytics and actionable insights; digital transformation services that design and engineer CX solutions to enable efficient customer self-service and build customer loyalty; customer engagement solutions and services that address the entirety of the customer lifecycle; AI technology that can intelligently act on customer intent to improve customer experience with non-human engagement; voice of the customer and analytics solutions to gather and analyze customer feedback to foster loyalty to, and growth with, clients; analytics and consulting solutions that synthesize data and provide professional insight to improve clients’ customer experience strategies; vertical business process outsourcing (BPO) services; and back office BPO services that support clients in non-customer facing areas. The company’s clients include technology and consumer electronics, retail, travel and e-commerce, communications and media, banking, financial services and insurance, healthcare, and others, as well as global IPOs, social brands, and banks. Concentrix Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in Newark, California.