JHD vs. FAN, TYMN, GEN, COD, TPK, KLR, REDD, RNWH, MGAM, and WIN
Should you be buying James Halstead stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of James Halstead include Volution Group (FAN), Tyman (TYMN), Genuit Group (GEN), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Travis Perkins (TPK), Keller Group (KLR), Redde Northgate (REDD), Renew (RNWH), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), and Wincanton (WIN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
James Halstead (LON:JHD) and Volution Group (LON:FAN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
James Halstead has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Volution Group. James Halstead is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Volution Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
James Halstead pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Volution Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. James Halstead pays out 7,272.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Volution Group pays out 3,809.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Volution Group had 1 more articles in the media than James Halstead. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Volution Group and 1 mentions for James Halstead. Volution Group's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat James Halstead's score of 0.00 indicating that Volution Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
James Halstead has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Volution Group has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Volution Group received 241 more outperform votes than James Halstead when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.96% of users gave Volution Group an outperform vote while only 72.51% of users gave James Halstead an outperform vote.
Volution Group has a consensus target price of GBX 500, suggesting a potential upside of 11.36%. Given Volution Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Volution Group is more favorable than James Halstead.
12.4% of James Halstead shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of Volution Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.4% of James Halstead shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Volution Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
James Halstead has a net margin of 15.30% compared to Volution Group's net margin of 12.54%. James Halstead's return on equity of 26.85% beat Volution Group's return on equity.
Summary
Volution Group beats James Halstead on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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