RST vs. FRAN, CPI, KEYS, DLAR, BEG, KGH, INSE, JSG, RWS, and FNTL
Should you be buying Restore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Restore include Franchise Brands (FRAN), Capita (CPI), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), De La Rue (DLAR), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Knights Group (KGH), Inspired (INSE), Johnson Service Group (JSG), RWS (RWS), and Fintel (FNTL). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Franchise Brands (LON:FRAN) and Restore (LON:RST) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Restore received 199 more outperform votes than Franchise Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.63% of users gave Restore an outperform vote while only 66.12% of users gave Franchise Brands an outperform vote.
Franchise Brands has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Restore has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Franchise Brands has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Restore. Restore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franchise Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Franchise Brands has a net margin of 2.97% compared to Franchise Brands' net margin of -11.08%. Restore's return on equity of 1.19% beat Franchise Brands' return on equity.
Franchise Brands pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Restore pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Franchise Brands pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Restore pays out -2,173.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Restore is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Restore has a consensus price target of GBX 443.33, suggesting a potential upside of 81.88%. Given Franchise Brands' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Restore is more favorable than Franchise Brands.
In the previous week, Franchise Brands had 28 more articles in the media than Restore. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Franchise Brands and 3 mentions for Restore. Franchise Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Restore's score of 0.26 indicating that Restore is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
38.9% of Franchise Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Restore shares are held by institutional investors. 47.1% of Franchise Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of Restore 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
Restore beats Franchise Brands on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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