FGP vs. MCG, MGNS, GEN, GEC, CHG, CKN, SMS, BOY, REDD, and MGAM
Should you be buying FirstGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstGroup include Mobico Group (MCG), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Genuit Group (GEN), General Electric (GEC), Chemring Group (CHG), Clarkson (CKN), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Bodycote (BOY), Redde Northgate (REDD), and Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Mobico Group (LON:MCG) and FirstGroup (LON:FGP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
FirstGroup received 593 more outperform votes than Mobico Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
70.8% of Mobico Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of FirstGroup shares are held by institutional investors. 27.3% of Mobico Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of FirstGroup shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mobico Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. FirstGroup pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Mobico Group pays out -625.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstGroup pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Mobico Group had 10 more articles in the media than FirstGroup. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Mobico Group and 1 mentions for FirstGroup. FirstGroup's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Mobico Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Mobico Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FirstGroup has a consensus target price of GBX 162.67, indicating a potential downside of 1.53%. Given Mobico Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe FirstGroup is more favorable than Mobico Group.
Mobico Group has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstGroup has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FirstGroup has higher revenue and earnings than Mobico Group. FirstGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mobico Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FirstGroup has a net margin of 0.69% compared to FirstGroup's net margin of -9.00%. Mobico Group's return on equity of 0.50% beat FirstGroup's return on equity.
Summary
FirstGroup beats Mobico Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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