CURY vs. MOON, CARD, HFD, PETS, SMWH, DNLM, DOCS, CVSG, TIFS, and PPH
Should you be buying Currys stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Currys include Moonpig Group (MOON), Card Factory (CARD), Halfords Group (HFD), Pets at Home Group (PETS), WH Smith (SMWH), Dunelm Group (DNLM), Dr. Martens (DOCS), CVS Group (CVSG), TI Fluid Systems (TIFS), and PPHE Hotel Group (PPH). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Moonpig Group (LON:MOON) and Currys (LON:CURY) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Moonpig Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 231.25, indicating a potential upside of 54.27%. Currys has a consensus price target of GBX 80.50, indicating a potential upside of 30.36%. Given Currys' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Moonpig Group is more favorable than Currys.
In the previous week, Currys had 19 more articles in the media than Moonpig Group. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Currys and 5 mentions for Moonpig Group. Moonpig Group's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Currys' score of 0.15 indicating that Currys is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Moonpig Group has a net margin of 10.58% compared to Moonpig Group's net margin of 0.44%. Moonpig Group's return on equity of 2.14% beat Currys' return on equity.
77.1% of Moonpig Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Currys shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of Moonpig Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.5% of Currys shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Currys has higher revenue and earnings than Moonpig Group. Moonpig Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Currys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Currys received 683 more outperform votes than Moonpig Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Moonpig Group an outperform vote while only 77.96% of users gave Currys an outperform vote.
Moonpig Group has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Currys has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Currys beats Moonpig Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Currys News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for CURY and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CURY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Related Companies and Tools
