KIE vs. RNWH, KLR, GFRD, COST, SFR, MGNS, HILS, BBY, MEGP, and VLX
Should you be buying Kier Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kier Group include Renew (RNWH), Keller Group (KLR), Galliford Try (GFRD), Costain Group (COST), Severfield (SFR), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Hill & Smith (HILS), Balfour Beatty (BBY), ME Group International (MEGP), and Volex (VLX). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Renew (LON:RNWH) and Kier Group (LON:KIE) are both small-cap industrials 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.
Renew currently has a consensus target price of GBX 950, indicating a potential downside of 0.31%. Kier Group has a consensus target price of GBX 210, indicating a potential upside of 54.87%. Given Renew's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kier Group is more favorable than Renew.
In the previous week, Renew and Renew both had 3 articles in the media. Kier Group's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Renew's score of 0.06 indicating that Renew is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Renew has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kier Group. Kier Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Renew, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Renew pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Kier Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Renew pays out 3,050.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kier Group pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Renew has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kier Group has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Renew has a net margin of 4.71% compared to Renew's net margin of 1.08%. Kier Group's return on equity of 28.69% beat Renew's return on equity.
62.9% of Renew shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Kier Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Renew shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Kier Group 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.
Kier Group received 285 more outperform votes than Renew when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.27% of users gave Kier Group an outperform vote while only 73.42% of users gave Renew an outperform vote.
Summary
Renew beats Kier Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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