DPLM vs. RS1, GFTU, WEIR, SMIN, IMI, SPX, EZJ, ITRK, MRO, and ROR
Should you be buying Diploma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diploma include RS Group (RS1), Grafton Group (GFTU), The Weir Group (WEIR), Smiths Group (SMIN), IMI (IMI), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), easyJet (EZJ), Intertek Group (ITRK), Melrose Industries (MRO), and Rotork (ROR). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
RS Group (LON:RS1) and Diploma (LON:DPLM) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
84.4% of RS Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.7% of Diploma shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of RS Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Diploma shares are owned by 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.
RS Group has higher revenue and earnings than Diploma. RS Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diploma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RS Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,013, indicating a potential upside of 22.86%. Diploma has a consensus target price of GBX 3,950, indicating a potential downside of 5.59%. Given Diploma's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RS Group is more favorable than Diploma.
Diploma has a net margin of 9.25% compared to Diploma's net margin of 7.93%. Diploma's return on equity of 17.57% beat RS Group's return on equity.
RS Group has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diploma has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Diploma pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. RS Group pays out 4,400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Diploma pays out 6,627.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RS Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Diploma received 270 more outperform votes than RS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.95% of users gave Diploma an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave RS Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, RS Group and RS Group both had 15 articles in the media. RS Group's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Diploma's score of 0.13 indicating that Diploma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
RS Group and Diploma tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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