XPS vs. MER, CVSG, MOON, CRST, BOWL, PPH, BOO, ABDP, AO, and ASC
Should you be buying XPS Pensions Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XPS Pensions Group include Mears Group (MER), CVS Group (CVSG), Moonpig Group (MOON), Crest Nicholson (CRST), Hollywood Bowl Group (BOWL), PPHE Hotel Group (PPH), boohoo group (BOO), AB Dynamics (ABDP), AO World (AO), and ASOS (ASC). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
XPS Pensions Group (LON:XPS) and Mears Group (LON:MER) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
89.6% of XPS Pensions Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 118.4% of Mears Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of XPS Pensions Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Mears Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
XPS Pensions Group has a net margin of 8.37% compared to Mears Group's net margin of 3.23%. Mears Group's return on equity of 17.70% beat XPS Pensions Group's return on equity.
Mears Group has higher revenue and earnings than XPS Pensions Group. Mears Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than XPS Pensions Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
XPS Pensions Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Mears Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. XPS Pensions Group pays out 12,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mears Group pays out 4,062.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
XPS Pensions Group has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mears Group has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Mears Group had 3 more articles in the media than XPS Pensions Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Mears Group and 1 mentions for XPS Pensions Group. Mears Group's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat XPS Pensions Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Mears Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mears Group received 245 more outperform votes than XPS Pensions Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.32% of users gave XPS Pensions Group an outperform vote while only 75.05% of users gave Mears Group an outperform vote.
XPS Pensions Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 263, suggesting a potential upside of 1.15%. Mears Group has a consensus price target of GBX 420, suggesting a potential upside of 7.14%. Given Mears Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mears Group is more favorable than XPS Pensions Group.
Summary
Mears Group beats XPS Pensions Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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