COST vs. GFRD, SFR, CTO, BILN, KIE, RNWH, KLR, CPI, BRCK, and ASY
Should you be buying Costain Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Costain Group include Galliford Try (GFRD), Severfield (SFR), TClarke (CTO), Billington (BILN), Kier Group (KIE), Renew (RNWH), Keller Group (KLR), Capita (CPI), Brickability Group (BRCK), and Andrews Sykes Group (ASY). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Galliford Try (LON:GFRD) and Costain Group (LON:COST) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
Galliford Try has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Costain Group has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Costain Group had 2 more articles in the media than Galliford Try. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Costain Group and 1 mentions for Galliford Try. Costain Group's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Galliford Try's score of 0.23 indicating that Galliford Try is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Costain Group received 152 more outperform votes than Galliford Try when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.18% of users gave Costain Group an outperform vote while only 71.33% of users gave Galliford Try an outperform vote.
63.6% of Galliford Try shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.2% of Costain Group shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Galliford Try shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.4% of Costain Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Galliford Try pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Costain Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Galliford Try pays out 8,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Costain Group pays out 1,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Galliford Try currently has a consensus target price of GBX 300, suggesting a potential upside of 23.48%. Given Costain Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Galliford Try is more favorable than Costain Group.
Costain Group has a net margin of 1.66% compared to Costain Group's net margin of 0.94%. Costain Group's return on equity of 12.63% beat Galliford Try's return on equity.
Costain Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Galliford Try. Costain Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Galliford Try, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Costain Group beats Galliford Try on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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