FLO vs. LORD, BMTO, BRCK, SFT, HSS, ALU, DIA, BILN, WATR, and GMAA
Should you be buying Flowtech Fluidpower stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowtech Fluidpower include Lords Group Trading (LORD), Braime Group (BMTO), Brickability Group (BRCK), Software Circle (SFT), HSS Hire Group (HSS), The Alumasc Group (ALU), Dialight (DIA), Billington (BILN), Water Intelligence (WATR), and Gama Aviation (GMAA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Flowtech Fluidpower (LON:FLO) and Lords Group Trading (LON:LORD) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Flowtech Fluidpower has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lords Group Trading has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lords Group Trading had 17 more articles in the media than Flowtech Fluidpower. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Lords Group Trading and 1 mentions for Flowtech Fluidpower. Lords Group Trading's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Flowtech Fluidpower's score of 0.00 indicating that Lords Group Trading is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lords Group Trading has higher revenue and earnings than Flowtech Fluidpower. Flowtech Fluidpower is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lords Group Trading, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lords Group Trading has a consensus price target of GBX 90, indicating a potential upside of 87.50%. Given Lords Group Trading's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lords Group Trading is more favorable than Flowtech Fluidpower.
Lords Group Trading has a net margin of 1.95% compared to Flowtech Fluidpower's net margin of -11.58%. Lords Group Trading's return on equity of 17.15% beat Flowtech Fluidpower's return on equity.
Flowtech Fluidpower pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Lords Group Trading pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Flowtech Fluidpower pays out -952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lords Group Trading pays out 4,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Flowtech Fluidpower received 159 more outperform votes than Lords Group Trading when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Lords Group Trading an outperform vote while only 66.02% of users gave Flowtech Fluidpower an outperform vote.
67.3% of Flowtech Fluidpower shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.7% of Lords Group Trading shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Flowtech Fluidpower shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 67.0% of Lords Group Trading shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Lords Group Trading beats Flowtech Fluidpower on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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