CRN vs. CRST, GLE, RDW, BWY, THG, JDW, DAL, WOSG, DWL, and CURY
Should you be buying Cairn Homes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cairn Homes include Crest Nicholson (CRST), MJ Gleeson (GLE), Redrow (RDW), Bellway (BWY), THG (THG), J D Wetherspoon (JDW), Dalata Hotel Group (DAL), Watches of Switzerland Group (WOSG), Dowlais Group (DWL), and Currys (CURY). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Crest Nicholson (LON:CRST) and Cairn Homes (LON:CRN) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Crest Nicholson received 473 more outperform votes than Cairn Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.05% of users gave Cairn Homes an outperform vote while only 68.89% of users gave Crest Nicholson an outperform vote.
Crest Nicholson has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cairn Homes has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cairn Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Crest Nicholson. Cairn Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crest Nicholson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crest Nicholson currently has a consensus target price of GBX 222.40, suggesting a potential downside of 1.42%. Given Cairn Homes' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Crest Nicholson is more favorable than Cairn Homes.
Crest Nicholson pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Cairn Homes pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Crest Nicholson pays out 24,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cairn Homes pays out 4,545.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
75.5% of Crest Nicholson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.2% of Cairn Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Crest Nicholson shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.5% of Cairn Homes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cairn Homes has a net margin of 12.81% compared to Cairn Homes' net margin of 2.72%. Crest Nicholson's return on equity of 11.32% beat Cairn Homes' return on equity.
In the previous week, Crest Nicholson had 1 more articles in the media than Cairn Homes. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Crest Nicholson and 1 mentions for Cairn Homes. Cairn Homes' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Crest Nicholson's score of 0.10 indicating that Crest Nicholson is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cairn Homes beats Crest Nicholson on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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