TFW vs. CWR, VLX, XPP, LUCE, SUP, AFC, SMS, RWI, OCN, and MRL
Should you be buying FW Thorpe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FW Thorpe include Ceres Power (CWR), Volex (VLX), XP Power (XPP), Luceco (LUCE), Supreme (SUP), AFC Energy (AFC), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Renewi (RWI), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), and Marlowe (MRL). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
FW Thorpe (LON:TFW) and Ceres Power (LON:CWR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.
FW Thorpe has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ceres Power has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ceres Power has a consensus target price of GBX 700, indicating a potential upside of 277.56%. Given Ceres Power's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ceres Power is more favorable than FW Thorpe.
FW Thorpe has a net margin of 12.47% compared to Ceres Power's net margin of -241.93%. FW Thorpe's return on equity of 14.11% beat Ceres Power's return on equity.
Ceres Power received 116 more outperform votes than FW Thorpe when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave FW Thorpe an outperform vote while only 69.20% of users gave Ceres Power an outperform vote.
FW Thorpe has higher revenue and earnings than Ceres Power. Ceres Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FW Thorpe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
10.9% of FW Thorpe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of Ceres Power shares are held by institutional investors. 70.8% of FW Thorpe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 39.7% of Ceres Power shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ceres Power had 1 more articles in the media than FW Thorpe. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ceres Power and 0 mentions for FW Thorpe. Ceres Power's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat FW Thorpe's score of 0.00 indicating that Ceres Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
FW Thorpe beats Ceres Power on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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