CGS vs. GDWN, ITM, AVG, RNO, LOAD, MPAC, PHE, CPH2, XSG, and SIXH
Should you be buying Castings stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Castings include Goodwin (GDWN), ITM Power (ITM), Avingtrans (AVG), Renold (RNO), Crestchic (LOAD), Mpac Group (MPAC), PowerHouse Energy Group (PHE), Clean Power Hydrogen (CPH2), Xeros Technology Group (XSG), and The 600 Group (SIXH). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Castings (LON:CGS) and Goodwin (LON:GDWN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Castings has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Goodwin has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
52.2% of Castings shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Goodwin shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.7% of Castings shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 67.6% of Goodwin 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.
Castings presently has a consensus price target of GBX 550, suggesting a potential upside of 42.86%. Given Castings' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Castings is more favorable than Goodwin.
Castings pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Goodwin pays an annual dividend of GBX 115 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Castings pays out 5,142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Goodwin pays out 5,502.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Castings is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Castings received 38 more outperform votes than Goodwin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.63% of users gave Castings an outperform vote while only 65.79% of users gave Goodwin an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Goodwin had 1 more articles in the media than Castings. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Goodwin and 0 mentions for Castings. Goodwin's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Castings' score of 0.00 indicating that Goodwin is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Goodwin has a net margin of 8.18% compared to Castings' net margin of 6.81%. Goodwin's return on equity of 13.85% beat Castings' return on equity.
Goodwin has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Castings. Castings is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Goodwin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Goodwin beats Castings on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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