MRL vs. LSC, CGEO, AFM, OCN, RWI, TFW, GDWN, STEM, COD, and FRAN
Should you be buying Marlowe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marlowe include London Security (LSC), Georgia Capital (CGEO), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Renewi (RWI), FW Thorpe (TFW), Goodwin (GDWN), SThree (STEM), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), and Franchise Brands (FRAN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Marlowe (LON:MRL) and London Security (LON:LSC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
55.2% of Marlowe shares are held by institutional investors. 19.6% of Marlowe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 99.0% of London Security shares are held 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.
Marlowe received 90 more outperform votes than London Security when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.25% of users gave Marlowe an outperform vote while only 70.91% of users gave London Security an outperform vote.
London Security has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Marlowe. Marlowe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than London Security, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
London Security has a net margin of 10.41% compared to Marlowe's net margin of -2.85%. London Security's return on equity of 14.80% beat Marlowe's return on equity.
In the previous week, London Security had 3 more articles in the media than Marlowe. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for London Security and 1 mentions for Marlowe. Marlowe's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat London Security's score of -0.53 indicating that Marlowe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Marlowe currently has a consensus price target of GBX 710, suggesting a potential upside of 34.98%. Given Marlowe's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Marlowe is more favorable than London Security.
Marlowe has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, London Security has a beta of 0.22, meaning that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
London Security beats Marlowe on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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