SRP vs. MTO, RWS, JSG, QQ, BBY, GFTU, WIZZ, DATA, RHIM, and TPK
Should you be buying Serco Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Serco Group include Mitie Group (MTO), RWS (RWS), Johnson Service Group (JSG), QinetiQ Group (QQ), Balfour Beatty (BBY), Grafton Group (GFTU), Wizz Air (WIZZ), GlobalData (DATA), RHI Magnesita (RHIM), and Travis Perkins (TPK). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Serco Group (LON:SRP) and Mitie Group (LON:MTO) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Serco Group has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mitie Group has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Serco Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 190, suggesting a potential upside of 2.70%. Mitie Group has a consensus target price of GBX 125, suggesting a potential upside of 8.32%. Given Mitie Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Mitie Group is more favorable than Serco Group.
Serco Group has higher revenue and earnings than Mitie Group. Serco Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mitie Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Mitie Group had 3 more articles in the media than Serco Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Mitie Group and 1 mentions for Serco Group. Serco Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Mitie Group's score of 0.40 indicating that Serco Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Serco Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Mitie Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Serco Group pays out 1,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mitie Group 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.
69.7% of Serco Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of Mitie Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Serco Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.0% of Mitie Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Serco Group received 59 more outperform votes than Mitie Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 51.27% of users gave Mitie Group an outperform vote while only 48.52% of users gave Serco Group an outperform vote.
Serco Group has a net margin of 4.15% compared to Mitie Group's net margin of 2.38%. Mitie Group's return on equity of 24.25% beat Serco Group's return on equity.
Summary
Mitie Group beats Serco Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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