Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN – Get Free Report) and Acco Group (NASDAQ:ACCL – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Profitability
This table compares Huron Consulting Group and Acco Group’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% |
| Acco Group | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
93.9% of Huron Consulting Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Huron Consulting Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Huron Consulting Group | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Acco Group | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Huron Consulting Group currently has a consensus target price of $184.25, indicating a potential upside of 21.19%. Given Huron Consulting Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Huron Consulting Group is more favorable than Acco Group.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Huron Consulting Group and Acco Group”s top-line 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 | 1.42 | $105.04 million | $6.68 | 22.76 |
| Acco Group | $4.89 million | 8.47 | $1.02 million | N/A | N/A |
Huron Consulting Group has higher revenue and earnings than Acco Group.
Summary
Huron Consulting Group beats Acco Group on 11 of the 12 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 Acco Group
Accelrys, Inc. develops and commercializes scientific informatics software products and services for industries and organizations. The Company’s product lines include Pipeline Pilot, Accelrys Enterprise Research and Development (R & D) Platform; Computer Aided Design Modeling and Simulation Software; Enterprise Lab Notebook; Lab Execution Systems; Content Databases, and Data Management & Informatics Software. Its software and service solutions are used by its customers’ scientists, biologists, chemists and information technology professionals in order to aggregate, mine, integrate, analyze, simulate, manage and interactively report scientific data. Effective April 29, 2014, Dassault Systemes Americas Corp (Dassault), a unit of Dassault Systemes SA, acquired Accelrys Inc.
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