CRN vs. CRST, GLE, RDW, BWY, THG, JDW, DWL, WOSG, DAL, and DOCS
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), Dowlais Group (DWL), Watches of Switzerland Group (WOSG), Dalata Hotel Group (DAL), and Dr. Martens (DOCS). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Cairn Homes (LON:CRN) and Crest Nicholson (LON:CRST) 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 analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
Cairn Homes has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crest Nicholson has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cairn Homes had 3 more articles in the media than Crest Nicholson. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Cairn Homes and 1 mentions for Crest Nicholson. Crest Nicholson's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Cairn Homes' score of 0.20 indicating that Crest Nicholson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Cairn Homes has a net margin of 12.81% compared to Crest Nicholson's net margin of 2.72%. Cairn Homes' return on equity of 11.32% beat Crest Nicholson's return on equity.
Crest Nicholson has a consensus target price of GBX 222.40, indicating a potential downside of 5.04%. Given Crest Nicholson's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crest Nicholson is more favorable than Cairn Homes.
Cairn Homes pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Crest Nicholson pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. 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. 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.
71.2% of Cairn Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.7% of Crest Nicholson shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of Cairn Homes shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Crest Nicholson 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.
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.
Summary
Cairn Homes beats Crest Nicholson on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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