CHRT vs. AVON, SNR, CHG, ITM, RST, SHI, FNTL, PRV, RCDO, and RWA
Should you be buying Cohort stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cohort include Avon Protection (AVON), Senior (SNR), Chemring Group (CHG), ITM Power (ITM), Restore (RST), SIG (SHI), Fintel (FNTL), Porvair (PRV), Ricardo (RCDO), and Robert Walters (RWA). 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 compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
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.
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.
Cohort has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avon Protection has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Avon Protection had 3 more articles in the media than Cohort. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Avon Protection and 6 mentions for Cohort. Cohort's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Avon Protection's score of 0.10 indicating that Cohort is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Avon Protection has a consensus target price of GBX 1,265, indicating a potential upside of 9.05%. Given Avon Protection's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Avon Protection is more favorable than Cohort.
42.0% of Cohort shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.5% of Avon Protection shares are held by institutional investors. 35.1% of Cohort shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Avon Protection shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cohort pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Avon Protection pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. 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 -5,348.8% 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.
Cohort has a net margin of 6.65% compared to Avon Protection's net margin of -5.91%. Cohort's return on equity of 14.24% beat Avon Protection's return on equity.
Summary
Cohort beats Avon Protection on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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