ECEL vs. COD, SUR, NXR, SRAD, KGP, EPWN, ALU, TON, NTBR, and HSM
Should you be buying Eurocell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eurocell include Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Sureserve Group (SUR), Norcros (NXR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Kingspan Group (KGP), Epwin Group (EPWN), The Alumasc Group (ALU), Titon (TON), Northern Bear (NTBR), and Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (LON:COD) and Eurocell (LON:ECEL) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Eurocell received 106 more outperform votes than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.43% of users gave Eurocell an outperform vote while only 76.68% of users gave Compagnie de Saint-Gobain an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Eurocell's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Compagnie de Saint-Gobain'saverage media sentiment score.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a net margin of 5.57% compared to Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's net margin of 2.63%. Eurocell's return on equity of 11.75% beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's return on equity.
48.3% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of Eurocell shares are held by institutional investors. 11.2% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Eurocell shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has higher revenue and earnings than Eurocell. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eurocell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eurocell has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays an annual dividend of GBX 210 per share and has a dividend yield of 263.9%. Eurocell pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays out 4,015.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eurocell pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Eurocell has a consensus target price of GBX 180, suggesting a potential upside of 34.83%. Given Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Eurocell is more favorable than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain.
Summary
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain beats Eurocell on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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