VLX vs. TFW, CWR, LUCE, XPP, SUP, SMS, STEM, CGEO, JSG, and KIE
Should you be buying Volex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Volex include FW Thorpe (TFW), Ceres Power (CWR), Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Supreme (SUP), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), SThree (STEM), Georgia Capital (CGEO), Johnson Service Group (JSG), and Kier Group (KIE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Volex (LON:VLX) and FW Thorpe (LON:TFW) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Volex currently has a consensus target price of GBX 420, suggesting a potential upside of 26.70%. Given Volex's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Volex is more favorable than FW Thorpe.
Volex received 187 more outperform votes than FW Thorpe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.56% of users gave Volex an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave FW Thorpe an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Volex and Volex both had 1 articles in the media. FW Thorpe's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Volex's score of 0.59 indicating that FW Thorpe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Volex has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FW Thorpe has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
40.3% of Volex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of FW Thorpe shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.0% of Volex shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 70.8% of FW Thorpe shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Volex pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. FW Thorpe pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Volex pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. FW Thorpe pays out 3,684.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
FW Thorpe has a net margin of 12.47% compared to Volex's net margin of 4.67%. Volex's return on equity of 14.16% beat FW Thorpe's return on equity.
Volex has higher revenue and earnings than FW Thorpe. FW Thorpe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Volex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Volex beats FW Thorpe on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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