GMAA vs. FLO, ALU, WATR, RFX, HSS, MANO, DIA, BILN, SMJ, and INSE
Should you be buying Gama Aviation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gama Aviation include Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), The Alumasc Group (ALU), Water Intelligence (WATR), Ramsdens (RFX), HSS Hire Group (HSS), Manolete Partners (MANO), Dialight (DIA), Billington (BILN), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), and Inspired (INSE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Flowtech Fluidpower (LON:FLO) and Gama Aviation (LON:GMAA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Gama Aviation has higher revenue and earnings than Flowtech Fluidpower. Gama Aviation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowtech Fluidpower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gama Aviation had 2 more articles in the media than Flowtech Fluidpower. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Gama Aviation and 1 mentions for Flowtech Fluidpower. Gama Aviation's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Flowtech Fluidpower's score of 0.17 indicating that Flowtech Fluidpower is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gama Aviation has a net margin of -1.12% compared to Gama Aviation's net margin of -11.58%. Flowtech Fluidpower's return on equity of -9.15% beat Gama Aviation's return on equity.
Gama Aviation received 83 more outperform votes than Flowtech Fluidpower when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.59% of users gave Gama Aviation an outperform vote while only 66.02% of users gave Flowtech Fluidpower an outperform vote.
Flowtech Fluidpower pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Gama Aviation pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Flowtech Fluidpower pays out -952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gama Aviation pays out -1,818.2% 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. Gama Aviation is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Flowtech Fluidpower has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gama Aviation has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
68.1% of Flowtech Fluidpower shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.5% of Gama Aviation shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Flowtech Fluidpower shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 79.6% of Gama Aviation shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Gama Aviation beats Flowtech Fluidpower on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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