RCDO vs. FNTL, ELIX, AFM, SAG, GTLY, PPHC, PRV, RST, CWR, and RWA
Should you be buying Ricardo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ricardo include Fintel (FNTL), Elixirr International (ELIX), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), Science Group (SAG), Gateley (GTLY), Public Policy (PPHC), Porvair (PRV), Restore (RST), Ceres Power (CWR), and Robert Walters (RWA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Fintel (LON:FNTL) and Ricardo (LON:RCDO) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
Fintel has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ricardo. Ricardo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fintel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fintel pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Ricardo pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Fintel pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ricardo pays out -120,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ricardo is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Fintel and Fintel both had 1 articles in the media. Ricardo's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Fintel's score of 0.00 indicating that Fintel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fintel has a net margin of 10.94% compared to Fintel's net margin of -0.13%. Ricardo's return on equity of 7.37% beat Fintel's return on equity.
53.4% of Fintel shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Ricardo shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.6% of Fintel shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Ricardo shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fintel has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ricardo has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ricardo received 258 more outperform votes than Fintel when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Fintel beats Ricardo on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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