COD vs. NXR, SRAD, ECEL, EPWN, TYMN, JHD, FAN, GEN, FRAN, and LSC
Should you be buying Compagnie de Saint-Gobain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain include Norcros (NXR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Eurocell (ECEL), Epwin Group (EPWN), Tyman (TYMN), James Halstead (JHD), Volution Group (FAN), Genuit Group (GEN), Franchise Brands (FRAN), and London Security (LSC). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Norcros (LON:NXR) and Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (LON:COD) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Norcros currently has a consensus target price of GBX 320, suggesting a potential upside of 48.84%. Given Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Norcros is more favorable than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has higher revenue and earnings than Norcros. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Norcros, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a net margin of 5.57% compared to Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's net margin of 3.57%. Norcros' return on equity of 11.75% beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's return on equity.
Norcros has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Norcros pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays an annual dividend of GBX 210 per share and has a dividend yield of 258.9%. Norcros pays out 6,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays out 4,015.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Norcros and Norcros both had 1 articles in the media. Norcros' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's score of 0.59 indicating that Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
72.7% of Norcros shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by institutional investors. 10.6% of Norcros shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Norcros received 74 more outperform votes than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 86.17% of users gave Norcros an outperform vote while only 76.68% of users gave Compagnie de Saint-Gobain an outperform vote.
Summary
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain beats Norcros on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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