KINO vs. VANL, HERC, SMJ, RAI, TGP, BILN, CTO, NMT, VNET, and SNX
Should you be buying Kinovo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinovo include Van Elle (VANL), Hercules Site Services (HERC), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), RA International Group (RAI), Tekmar Group (TGP), Billington (BILN), TClarke (CTO), Neometals (NMT), Vianet Group (VNET), and Synectics (SNX). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Van Elle (LON:VANL) and Kinovo (LON:KINO) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Van Elle has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinovo has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kinovo has a consensus price target of GBX 63.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.39%. Given Van Elle's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kinovo is more favorable than Van Elle.
Van Elle received 197 more outperform votes than Kinovo when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Kinovo an outperform vote while only 75.28% of users gave Van Elle an outperform vote.
Kinovo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Van Elle. Kinovo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Van Elle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kinovo's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Van Elle'saverage media sentiment score.
Kinovo has a net margin of 5.01% compared to Kinovo's net margin of 2.60%. Van Elle's return on equity of 61.90% beat Kinovo's return on equity.
Van Elle pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Kinovo pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Van Elle 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. Kinovo pays out 1,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
67.4% of Van Elle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.6% of Kinovo shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of Van Elle shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 59.1% of Kinovo 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.
Summary
Kinovo beats Van Elle on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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