CKN vs. ICGC, OCN, GEC, SMS, GEN, BOY, MGNS, FGP, CHG, and HAS
Should you be buying Clarkson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clarkson include Irish Continental Group (ICGC), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), General Electric (GEC), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Genuit Group (GEN), Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), FirstGroup (FGP), Chemring Group (CHG), and Hays (HAS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Clarkson (LON:CKN) and Irish Continental Group (LON:ICGC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
Clarkson has higher revenue and earnings than Irish Continental Group. Clarkson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Irish Continental Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clarkson received 152 more outperform votes than Irish Continental Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.15% of users gave Clarkson an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave Irish Continental Group an outperform vote.
Clarkson presently has a consensus price target of GBX 4,381.67, suggesting a potential upside of 11.78%. Given Clarkson's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Clarkson is more favorable than Irish Continental Group.
Clarkson has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Irish Continental Group has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
57.8% of Clarkson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.1% of Irish Continental Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Clarkson shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of Irish Continental Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Clarkson has a net margin of 13.11% compared to Irish Continental Group's net margin of 10.77%. Irish Continental Group's return on equity of 22.68% beat Clarkson's return on equity.
Clarkson pays an annual dividend of GBX 102 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Irish Continental Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Clarkson pays out 3,722.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Irish Continental Group pays out 4,333.3% 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, Clarkson and Clarkson both had 1 articles in the media. Clarkson's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Irish Continental Group's score of -0.33 indicating that Clarkson is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Clarkson beats Irish Continental Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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