KGH vs. INSE, SFT, WATR, BEG, DLAR, MIND, VNET, KEYS, CPI, and RST
Should you be buying Knights Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Knights Group include Inspired (INSE), Software Circle (SFT), Water Intelligence (WATR), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), De La Rue (DLAR), Mind Gym (MIND), Vianet Group (VNET), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), Capita (CPI), and Restore (RST). These companies are all part of the "specialty business services" industry.
Inspired (LON:INSE) and Knights Group (LON:KGH) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Knights Group has higher revenue and earnings than Inspired. Inspired is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knights Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Knights Group had 1 more articles in the media than Inspired. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Knights Group and 0 mentions for Inspired. Inspired's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Knights Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Knights Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Inspired pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Knights Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Inspired pays out -4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Knights Group pays out 3,636.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Inspired is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Knights Group has a net margin of 6.39% compared to Knights Group's net margin of -7.25%. Inspired's return on equity of 10.38% beat Knights Group's return on equity.
Inspired received 166 more outperform votes than Knights Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.37% of users gave Inspired an outperform vote while only 63.16% of users gave Knights Group an outperform vote.
79.5% of Inspired shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.9% of Knights Group shares are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of Inspired shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.1% of Knights Group shares are held by 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.
Inspired has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Knights Group has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Knights Group beats Inspired on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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