BWY vs. RDW, VTY, PSN, BDEV, TW, BKG, CRN, JET2, TUI, and GAW
Should you be buying Bellway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bellway include Redrow (RDW), Vistry Group (VTY), Persimmon (PSN), Barratt Developments (BDEV), Taylor Wimpey (TW), The Berkeley Group (BKG), Cairn Homes (CRN), Jet2 (JET2), TUI (TUI), and Games Workshop Group (GAW). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Bellway (LON:BWY) and Redrow (LON:RDW) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
Redrow has a net margin of 11.23% compared to Bellway's net margin of 7.63%. Redrow's return on equity of 10.56% beat Bellway's return on equity.
Bellway pays an annual dividend of GBX 111 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Redrow pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Bellway pays out 6,166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Redrow pays out 3,906.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Bellway had 1 more articles in the media than Redrow. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Bellway and 1 mentions for Redrow. Redrow's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Bellway's score of 0.53 indicating that Redrow is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
75.7% of Bellway shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.0% of Redrow shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Bellway shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.3% of Redrow shares are held by company 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.
Bellway currently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,711.25, indicating a potential upside of 6.57%. Redrow has a consensus price target of GBX 699.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.53%. Given Redrow's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Redrow is more favorable than Bellway.
Bellway received 39 more outperform votes than Redrow when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.69% of users gave Bellway an outperform vote while only 64.33% of users gave Redrow an outperform vote.
Bellway has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Redrow has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bellway has higher revenue and earnings than Redrow. Redrow is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bellway, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bellway beats Redrow on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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