CPI vs. KEYS, BEG, DLAR, RST, KGH, FRAN, SFT, INSE, JSG, and RWS
Should you be buying Capita stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capita include Keystone Law Group (KEYS), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), De La Rue (DLAR), Restore (RST), Knights Group (KGH), Franchise Brands (FRAN), Software Circle (SFT), Inspired (INSE), Johnson Service Group (JSG), and RWS (RWS). These companies are all part of the "specialty business services" industry.
Capita (LON:CPI) and Keystone Law Group (LON:KEYS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Keystone Law Group had 3 more articles in the media than Capita. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Keystone Law Group and 7 mentions for Capita. Keystone Law Group's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Capita's score of 0.07 indicating that Keystone Law Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Capita presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,800, suggesting a potential upside of 13,536.36%. Given Capita's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Capita is more favorable than Keystone Law Group.
Keystone Law Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Capita. Capita is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Keystone Law Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.3% of Capita shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.2% of Keystone Law Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Capita shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 44.0% of Keystone Law Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Keystone Law Group has a net margin of 9.03% compared to Capita's net margin of -6.33%. Keystone Law Group's return on equity of 42.54% beat Capita's return on equity.
Capita has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keystone Law Group has a beta of 0.33, suggesting that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Capita pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 242.4%. Keystone Law Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Capita pays out -32,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Keystone Law Group pays out 7,391.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Capita is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Capita received 428 more outperform votes than Keystone Law Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.00% of users gave Keystone Law Group an outperform vote while only 52.79% of users gave Capita an outperform vote.
Summary
Keystone Law Group beats Capita on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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