CHG vs. SNR, AVON, CHRT, QQ, GEN, MGNS, FGP, REDD, MGAM, and JHD
Should you be buying Chemring Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chemring Group include Senior (SNR), Avon Protection (AVON), Cohort (CHRT), QinetiQ Group (QQ), Genuit Group (GEN), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), FirstGroup (FGP), Redde Northgate (REDD), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), and James Halstead (JHD). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Senior (LON:SNR) and Chemring Group (LON:CHG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Chemring Group has a consensus target price of GBX 370, suggesting a potential downside of 1.99%. Given Senior's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chemring Group is more favorable than Senior.
Senior pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Chemring Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Senior pays out 2,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chemring Group pays out 5,384.6% 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, Senior had 7 more articles in the media than Chemring Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Senior and 2 mentions for Chemring Group. Senior's average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat Chemring Group's score of -0.60 indicating that Chemring Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Senior has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Senior's net margin of 1.14%. Senior's return on equity of 9.47% beat Chemring Group's return on equity.
90.1% of Senior shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 112.9% of Chemring Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Senior shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Chemring Group shares are held by company 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.
Senior received 284 more outperform votes than Chemring Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave Senior an outperform vote while only 61.32% of users gave Chemring Group an outperform vote.
Senior has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chemring Group has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chemring Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Senior. Senior is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemring Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chemring Group beats Senior on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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