GFRD vs. COST, SFR, CTO, BILN, KIE, RNWH, KLR, ASY, VP, and XPP
Should you be buying Galliford Try stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Galliford Try include Costain Group (COST), Severfield (SFR), TClarke (CTO), Billington (BILN), Kier Group (KIE), Renew (RNWH), Keller Group (KLR), Andrews Sykes Group (ASY), VP (VP), and XP Power (XPP). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Costain Group (LON:COST) and Galliford Try (LON:GFRD) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Costain Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Galliford Try. Costain Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Galliford Try, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Costain Group has a beta of 2.4, suggesting that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Galliford Try has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Costain Group has a net margin of 1.66% compared to Costain Group's net margin of 0.94%. Costain Group's return on equity of 12.63% beat Galliford Try's return on equity.
Galliford Try has a consensus price target of GBX 300, indicating a potential upside of 18.11%. Given Costain Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Galliford Try is more favorable than Costain Group.
In the previous week, Costain Group had 3 more articles in the media than Galliford Try. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Costain Group and 2 mentions for Galliford Try. Costain Group's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Galliford Try's score of 0.31 indicating that Galliford Try is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
45.2% of Costain Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.6% of Galliford Try shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.4% of Costain Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Galliford Try shares are owned by 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.
Costain Group received 152 more outperform votes than Galliford Try when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.18% of users gave Costain Group an outperform vote while only 71.33% of users gave Galliford Try an outperform vote.
Costain Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Galliford Try pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Costain Group pays out 1,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Galliford Try pays out 8,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Costain Group beats Galliford Try on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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