HILS vs. BBY, MGNS, KLR, RNWH, KIE, BAB, MTO, PAGE, HAS, and TPK
Should you be buying Hill & Smith stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hill & Smith include Balfour Beatty (BBY), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Keller Group (KLR), Renew (RNWH), Kier Group (KIE), Babcock International Group (BAB), Mitie Group (MTO), PageGroup (PAGE), Hays (HAS), and Travis Perkins (TPK). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Hill & Smith (LON:HILS) and Balfour Beatty (LON:BBY) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Hill & Smith pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Balfour Beatty pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Hill & Smith pays out 5,058.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Balfour Beatty pays out 3,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Balfour Beatty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hill & Smith has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Balfour Beatty has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hill & Smith has a net margin of 8.29% compared to Balfour Beatty's net margin of 2.47%. Hill & Smith's return on equity of 16.79% beat Balfour Beatty's return on equity.
Balfour Beatty has higher revenue and earnings than Hill & Smith. Balfour Beatty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hill & Smith, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hill & Smith had 1 more articles in the media than Balfour Beatty. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Hill & Smith and 1 mentions for Balfour Beatty. Hill & Smith's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Balfour Beatty's score of 0.59 indicating that Hill & Smith is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Balfour Beatty received 324 more outperform votes than Hill & Smith when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.39% of users gave Hill & Smith an outperform vote while only 65.42% of users gave Balfour Beatty an outperform vote.
Hill & Smith presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,903.33, indicating a potential upside of 0.28%. Given Hill & Smith's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hill & Smith is more favorable than Balfour Beatty.
78.5% of Hill & Smith shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.8% of Balfour Beatty shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Hill & Smith shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Balfour Beatty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hill & Smith beats Balfour Beatty on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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