VTU vs. MOTR, OTB, VIC, MACF, FSTA, LGRS, VCP, TUNE, DFS, and HSW
Should you be buying Vertu Motors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vertu Motors include Motorpoint Group (MOTR), On the Beach Group (OTB), Victorian Plumbing Group (VIC), Macfarlane Group (MACF), Fuller, Smith & Turner (FSTA), Loungers (LGRS), Victoria (VCP), Focusrite (TUNE), DFS Furniture (DFS), and Hostelworld Group (HSW). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Motorpoint Group (LON:MOTR) and Vertu Motors (LON:VTU) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Motorpoint Group has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vertu Motors has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vertu Motors has higher revenue and earnings than Motorpoint Group. Motorpoint Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vertu Motors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vertu Motors has a net margin of 0.60% compared to Vertu Motors' net margin of -0.52%. Motorpoint Group's return on equity of 7.60% beat Vertu Motors' return on equity.
Vertu Motors received 262 more outperform votes than Motorpoint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 85.30% of users gave Vertu Motors an outperform vote while only 64.94% of users gave Motorpoint Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vertu Motors had 1 more articles in the media than Motorpoint Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Vertu Motors and 0 mentions for Motorpoint Group. Motorpoint Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Vertu Motors' score of 0.40 indicating that Vertu Motors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Motorpoint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Vertu Motors pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Motorpoint Group pays out -7,142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vertu Motors pays out 2,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Motorpoint Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
45.4% of Motorpoint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Vertu Motors shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Motorpoint Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.2% of Vertu Motors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Vertu Motors beats Motorpoint Group on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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