KGF vs. TW, SMDS, HWDN, BDEV, BKG, PSN, BRBY, MKS, VTY, and PINE
Should you be buying Kingfisher stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingfisher include Taylor Wimpey (TW), DS Smith (SMDS), Howden Joinery Group (HWDN), Barratt Developments (BDEV), The Berkeley Group (BKG), Persimmon (PSN), Burberry Group (BRBY), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), Vistry Group (VTY), and Pinewood Technologies Group (PINE). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Taylor Wimpey (LON:TW) and Kingfisher (LON:KGF) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Taylor Wimpey currently has a consensus target price of GBX 135.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.89%. Kingfisher has a consensus target price of GBX 250, indicating a potential upside of 1.21%. Given Taylor Wimpey's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kingfisher is more favorable than Taylor Wimpey.
In the previous week, Taylor Wimpey had 1 more articles in the media than Kingfisher. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Taylor Wimpey and 1 mentions for Kingfisher. Taylor Wimpey's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Kingfisher's score of 0.52 indicating that Kingfisher is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Taylor Wimpey has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kingfisher. Taylor Wimpey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kingfisher, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Taylor Wimpey pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Kingfisher pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Taylor Wimpey pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kingfisher pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Taylor Wimpey has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kingfisher has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Taylor Wimpey has a net margin of 9.93% compared to Taylor Wimpey's net margin of 2.66%. Kingfisher's return on equity of 7.73% beat Taylor Wimpey's return on equity.
69.6% of Taylor Wimpey shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Kingfisher shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Taylor Wimpey shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Kingfisher shares are held by company 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.
Taylor Wimpey received 578 more outperform votes than Kingfisher when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.24% of users gave Taylor Wimpey an outperform vote while only 56.68% of users gave Kingfisher an outperform vote.
Summary
Taylor Wimpey beats Kingfisher on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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