Yahoo Finance FTI Consulting (FCN) Adds New Members to Top Management
FTI Consulting, Inc.FCN recently announced the appointment of Juan Rivera as a Senior Managing Director of its Strategic Communications segment in Madrid.
Before joining FTI Consulting, he was a partner and Managing Director of Llorente & Cuenca in Mexico. He has served as a trusted advisor to companies across Spain and Latin America and advised over 150 companies on corporate and financial communication strategies.
Rivera brings over 20 years of experience in the communication field to the table. He will collaborate with colleagues from FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance & Restructuring, Forensic & Litigation Consulting, Economic Consulting and Technology segments to offer a comprehensive suite of solutions to local and multinational organizations.
The company is launching its communication offering in Spain which will place it in the European market. Using Rivera’s expertise it will be able to live up to the expectations of its clients.
Alongside, the company also announced the appointment of Adam Bradley as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Operational Transformation practice within the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment in London. Bradley will help accelerate the growth of the company’s Operational Transformation segment in Europe and further help in expanding its service offerings to the private equity sector.
Such appointments will help the company augment its position in the European market. Their expertise in their field will improve the company’s top line going forward.
However, FTI Consulting has underperformed the Zacks categorized Consulting Services industry in the last one month with a loss of 5.9% compared with 0.6% decline for the latter. The changes in capital markets, legal or regulatory requirements and general economic factors could hamper demand for services, thereby affecting the company’s profitability.
FTI Consulting currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Some better-ranked stocks in the industry include Bunzl plc BZLFY, 3M Company MMM and Honeywell International Inc. HON. All three stocks carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
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Bunzl has a long-term earnings growth expectation of 3.2% and is currently trading at a forward P/E of 20.2x.
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