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Should you be buying Hollywood Bowl Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hollywood Bowl Group include Focusrite (TUNE), The Gym Group (GYM), Carnival Co. & (CCL), PPHE Hotel Group (PPH), AO World (AO), XPS Pensions Group (XPS), Moonpig Group (MOON), Crest Nicholson (CRST), CVS Group (CVSG), and TI Fluid Systems (TIFS). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Focusrite (LON:TUNE) and Hollywood Bowl Group (LON:BOWL) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Hollywood Bowl Group has higher revenue and earnings than Focusrite. Hollywood Bowl Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Focusrite, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Focusrite currently has a consensus target price of GBX 410, indicating a potential upside of 7.89%. Hollywood Bowl Group has a consensus target price of GBX 410, indicating a potential upside of 20.06%. Given Focusrite's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hollywood Bowl Group is more favorable than Focusrite.
In the previous week, Hollywood Bowl Group had 8 more articles in the media than Focusrite. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Hollywood Bowl Group and 1 mentions for Focusrite. Hollywood Bowl Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Focusrite's score of 0.38 indicating that Focusrite is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hollywood Bowl Group received 70 more outperform votes than Focusrite when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.57% of users gave Hollywood Bowl Group an outperform vote while only 80.65% of users gave Focusrite an outperform vote.
Focusrite has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hollywood Bowl Group has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hollywood Bowl Group has a net margin of 15.88% compared to Hollywood Bowl Group's net margin of 6.99%. Focusrite's return on equity of 23.85% beat Hollywood Bowl Group's return on equity.
49.4% of Focusrite shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.0% of Focusrite shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Focusrite pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Hollywood Bowl Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Focusrite pays out 3,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hollywood Bowl Group pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Hollywood Bowl Group beats Focusrite on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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