ANCR vs. APH, AGY, BXP, EAH, CEL, VLG, BMK, 4BB, EKF, and CREO
Should you be buying Animalcare Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Animalcare Group include Alliance Pharma (APH), Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), Beximco Pharmaceuticals (BXP), ECO Animal Health Group (EAH), Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL), Venture Life Group (VLG), Benchmark (BMK), 4basebio (4BB), EKF Diagnostics (EKF), and Creo Medical Group (CREO). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Alliance Pharma (LON:APH) and Animalcare Group (LON:ANCR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Alliance Pharma received 49 more outperform votes than Animalcare Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.37% of users gave Animalcare Group an outperform vote while only 62.08% of users gave Alliance Pharma an outperform vote.
Alliance Pharma currently has a consensus target price of GBX 80.75, suggesting a potential upside of 131.04%. Given Animalcare Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Alliance Pharma is more favorable than Animalcare Group.
66.7% of Alliance Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.3% of Animalcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Alliance Pharma shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.7% of Animalcare Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Animalcare Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alliance Pharma. Alliance Pharma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Animalcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Animalcare Group has a net margin of 1.61% compared to Animalcare Group's net margin of -4.15%. Alliance Pharma's return on equity of 1.53% beat Animalcare Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Alliance Pharma had 3 more articles in the media than Animalcare Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Alliance Pharma and 0 mentions for Animalcare Group. Animalcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Alliance Pharma's score of 0.00 indicating that Alliance Pharma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alliance Pharma pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Animalcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Alliance Pharma pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Animalcare Group pays out 25,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alliance Pharma is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alliance Pharma has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Animalcare Group has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alliance Pharma beats Animalcare Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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