DNLM vs. SMWH, PETS, CURY, FRAS, MOON, ROO, JET, RDW, CCL, and MAB
Should you be buying Dunelm Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dunelm Group include WH Smith (SMWH), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Currys (CURY), Frasers Group (FRAS), Moonpig Group (MOON), Deliveroo (ROO), Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET), Redrow (RDW), Carnival Co. & (CCL), and Mitchells & Butlers (MAB). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
WH Smith (LON:SMWH) and Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Dunelm Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than WH Smith. Dunelm Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WH Smith, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, WH Smith had 3 more articles in the media than Dunelm Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for WH Smith and 1 mentions for Dunelm Group. Dunelm Group's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat WH Smith's score of 0.56 indicating that WH Smith is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.2% of WH Smith shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.3% of Dunelm Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of WH Smith shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.1% of Dunelm Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dunelm Group received 257 more outperform votes than WH Smith when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.65% of users gave Dunelm Group an outperform vote while only 62.42% of users gave WH Smith an outperform vote.
Dunelm Group has a net margin of 8.92% compared to Dunelm Group's net margin of 3.44%. WH Smith's return on equity of 79.51% beat Dunelm Group's return on equity.
WH Smith currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,967.50, suggesting a potential upside of 76.30%. Dunelm Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,189, suggesting a potential upside of 9.08%. Given Dunelm Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe WH Smith is more favorable than Dunelm Group.
WH Smith pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Dunelm Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. WH Smith pays out 6,530.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dunelm Group pays out 5,890.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dunelm Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
WH Smith has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dunelm Group has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dunelm Group beats WH Smith on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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