MBH vs. STCM, FORT, THX, KOD, TRR, PDL, WYN, MTL, ATM, and AAZ
Should you be buying Michelmersh Brick stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Michelmersh Brick include Steppe Cement (STCM), Forterra (FORT), Thor Explorations (THX), Kodal Minerals (KOD), Trident Royalties (TRR), Petra Diamonds (PDL), Wynnstay Group (WYN), Metals Exploration (MTL), Andrada Mining (ATM), and Anglo Asian Mining (AAZ). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Steppe Cement (LON:STCM) and Michelmersh Brick (LON:MBH) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Michelmersh Brick has a consensus price target of GBX 175, suggesting a potential upside of 79.49%. Given Steppe Cement's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Michelmersh Brick is more favorable than Steppe Cement.
Michelmersh Brick has a net margin of 12.49% compared to Michelmersh Brick's net margin of 9.61%. Michelmersh Brick's return on equity of 11.37% beat Steppe Cement's return on equity.
Michelmersh Brick received 29 more outperform votes than Steppe Cement when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.74% of users gave Steppe Cement an outperform vote while only 71.88% of users gave Michelmersh Brick an outperform vote.
Michelmersh Brick has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Steppe Cement. Steppe Cement is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Michelmersh Brick, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Steppe Cement pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 27.0%. Michelmersh Brick pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Steppe Cement pays out 16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Michelmersh Brick pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Steppe Cement has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Michelmersh Brick has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Michelmersh Brick had 2 more articles in the media than Steppe Cement. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Michelmersh Brick and 1 mentions for Steppe Cement. Steppe Cement's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Michelmersh Brick's score of 0.75 indicating that Michelmersh Brick is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
17.8% of Steppe Cement shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.1% of Michelmersh Brick shares are held by institutional investors. 56.7% of Steppe Cement shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 42.4% of Michelmersh Brick shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Michelmersh Brick beats Steppe Cement on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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