DPLM vs. RS1, GFTU, IMI, WEIR, EZJ, SMIN, ROR, IDS, SPX, and BAB
Should you be buying Diploma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diploma include RS Group (RS1), Grafton Group (GFTU), IMI (IMI), The Weir Group (WEIR), easyJet (EZJ), Smiths Group (SMIN), Rotork (ROR), International Distributions Services (IDS), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), and Babcock International Group (BAB). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
RS Group (LON:RS1) and Diploma (LON:DPLM) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and media sentiment.
85.8% of RS Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Diploma shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of RS Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Diploma shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
RS Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,013, indicating a potential upside of 38.29%. Diploma has a consensus price target of GBX 3,450, indicating a potential downside of 4.59%. Given Diploma's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe RS Group is more favorable than Diploma.
In the previous week, RS Group had 12 more articles in the media than Diploma. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for RS Group and 1 mentions for Diploma. RS Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Diploma's score of 0.27 indicating that Diploma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RS Group has higher revenue and earnings than Diploma. RS Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diploma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RS Group has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diploma has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Diploma has a net margin of 9.81% compared to Diploma's net margin of 7.93%. Diploma's return on equity of 17.57% beat RS Group's return on equity.
RS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Diploma pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. RS Group pays out 4,400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Diploma pays out 6,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RS Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Diploma received 266 more outperform votes than RS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.61% of users gave Diploma an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave RS Group an outperform vote.
Summary
RS Group beats Diploma on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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