CAR vs. AUTG, STG, SCE, TRT, SCHO, SYM, MIN, HVTA, QUIZ, and WEB
Should you be buying Carclo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carclo include Autins Group (AUTG), Strip Tinning (STG), Surface Transforms (SCE), Transense Technologies (TRT), Scholium Group (SCHO), Symphony Environmental Technologies (SYM), Minoan Group (MIN), Heavitree Brewery (HVTA), QUIZ (QUIZ), and Webis (WEB). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Autins Group (LON:AUTG) and Carclo (LON:CAR) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
91.9% of Autins Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.9% of Carclo shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of Autins Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.7% of Carclo shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Autins Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Carclo pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 25.2%. Autins Group pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carclo pays out -3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Autins Group's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Carclo's score of 0.00 indicating that Carclo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Autins Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carclo. Autins Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carclo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Autins Group has a net margin of -4.03% compared to Autins Group's net margin of -4.92%. Carclo's return on equity of -8.10% beat Autins Group's return on equity.
Autins Group has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carclo has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Carclo received 146 more outperform votes than Autins Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.86% of users gave Carclo an outperform vote while only 65.38% of users gave Autins Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Autins Group and Carclo tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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