LGRS vs. FSTA, MARS, YNGN, YNGA, DPP, JDW, VIC, OTB, VTU, and DFS
Should you be buying Loungers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Loungers include Fuller, Smith & Turner (FSTA), Marston's (MARS), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGN), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGA), DP Poland (DPP), J D Wetherspoon (JDW), Victorian Plumbing Group (VIC), On the Beach Group (OTB), Vertu Motors (VTU), and DFS Furniture (DFS). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Fuller, Smith & Turner (LON:FSTA) and Loungers (LON:LGRS) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, Fuller, Smith & Turner and Fuller, Smith & Turner both had 1 articles in the media. Loungers' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Fuller, Smith & Turner's score of 0.54 indicating that Fuller, Smith & Turner is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fuller, Smith & Turner has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Loungers has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fuller, Smith & Turner has a net margin of 2.94% compared to Fuller, Smith & Turner's net margin of 2.32%. Fuller, Smith & Turner's return on equity of 5.03% beat Loungers' return on equity.
Fuller, Smith & Turner received 194 more outperform votes than Loungers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.34% of users gave Loungers an outperform vote while only 66.25% of users gave Fuller, Smith & Turner an outperform vote.
60.3% of Fuller, Smith & Turner shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.5% of Loungers shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.7% of Fuller, Smith & Turner shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.4% of Loungers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Loungers has a consensus price target of GBX 350, suggesting a potential upside of 31.58%. Given Fuller, Smith & Turner's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Loungers is more favorable than Fuller, Smith & Turner.
Fuller, Smith & Turner has higher revenue and earnings than Loungers. Fuller, Smith & Turner is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Loungers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Loungers beats Fuller, Smith & Turner on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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