BGC vs. SNEX, MC, KRC, KMPR, APLE, STEP, HWC, COLB, OSCR, and VLY
Should you be buying General Cable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of General Cable include StoneX Group (SNEX), Moelis & Company (MC), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Kemper (KMPR), Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE), StepStone Group (STEP), Hancock Whitney (HWC), Columbia Banking System (COLB), Oscar Health (OSCR), and Valley National Bancorp (VLY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
StoneX Group (NASDAQ:SNEX) and General Cable (NYSE:BGC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
StoneX Group has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, General Cable has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
General Cable has a net margin of 1.74% compared to General Cable's net margin of 0.34%. StoneX Group's return on equity of 48.53% beat General Cable's return on equity.
General Cable received 255 more outperform votes than StoneX Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.48% of users gave General Cable an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave StoneX Group an outperform vote.
General Cable has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.43%. Given StoneX Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe General Cable is more favorable than StoneX Group.
In the previous week, StoneX Group had 1 more articles in the media than General Cable. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for StoneX Group and 2 mentions for General Cable. General Cable's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat StoneX Group's score of 0.00 indicating that StoneX Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
StoneX Group has higher revenue and earnings than General Cable. StoneX Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than General Cable, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
75.9% of StoneX Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of General Cable shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.2% of StoneX Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.9% of General Cable shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
General Cable beats StoneX Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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