AVON vs. CHRT, SNR, CHG, GEC, CWR, LSC, COD, MCG, AFM, and FRAN
Should you be buying Avon Protection stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avon Protection include Cohort (CHRT), Senior (SNR), Chemring Group (CHG), General Electric (GEC), Ceres Power (CWR), London Security (LSC), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Mobico Group (MCG), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), and Franchise Brands (FRAN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Cohort (LON:CHRT) and Avon Protection (LON:AVON) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
41.8% of Cohort shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.0% of Avon Protection shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.3% of Cohort shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Avon Protection shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Avon Protection has a consensus price target of GBX 1,265, suggesting a potential upside of 3.69%. Given Cohort's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Avon Protection is more favorable than Cohort.
Cohort has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Avon Protection. Avon Protection is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cohort, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Avon Protection received 186 more outperform votes than Cohort when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.21% of users gave Cohort an outperform vote while only 75.21% of users gave Avon Protection an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cohort had 8 more articles in the media than Avon Protection. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Cohort and 4 mentions for Avon Protection. Avon Protection's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Cohort's score of 0.00 indicating that Cohort is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cohort has a net margin of 6.65% compared to Cohort's net margin of -5.91%. Avon Protection's return on equity of 14.24% beat Cohort's return on equity.
Cohort has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avon Protection has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cohort pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Avon Protection pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Cohort pays out 4,242.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Avon Protection pays out -5,227.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avon Protection is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Cohort beats Avon Protection on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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