OCN vs. ICGC, GPH, FSJ, CKN, GDWN, MRL, JSG, RWI, TFW, and STEM
Should you be buying Ocean Wilsons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ocean Wilsons include Irish Continental Group (ICGC), Global Ports (GPH), James Fisher and Sons (FSJ), Clarkson (CKN), Goodwin (GDWN), Marlowe (MRL), Johnson Service Group (JSG), Renewi (RWI), FW Thorpe (TFW), and SThree (STEM). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Ocean Wilsons (LON:OCN) and Irish Continental Group (LON:ICGC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Ocean Wilsons pays an annual dividend of GBX 67 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Irish Continental Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ocean Wilsons pays out 4,466.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Irish Continental Group pays out 4,193.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
42.4% of Ocean Wilsons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.0% of Irish Continental Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.6% of Ocean Wilsons shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.5% of Irish Continental Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ocean Wilsons has a net margin of 13.78% compared to Irish Continental Group's net margin of 10.77%. Irish Continental Group's return on equity of 22.68% beat Ocean Wilsons' return on equity.
Ocean Wilsons has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Irish Continental Group has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ocean Wilsons received 109 more outperform votes than Irish Continental Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.69% of users gave Ocean Wilsons an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave Irish Continental Group an outperform vote.
Ocean Wilsons has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Irish Continental Group. Ocean Wilsons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Irish Continental Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ocean Wilsons and Ocean Wilsons both had 1 articles in the media. Ocean Wilsons' average media sentiment score of 0.10 equaled Irish Continental Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Irish Continental Group beats Ocean Wilsons on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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