FGP vs. GOG, NEX, MCG, ROL, HSV, COB, RS1, EZJ, SIG, and BBA
Should you be buying FirstGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstGroup include The Go-Ahead Group (GOG), National Express Group (NEX), Mobico Group (MCG), Rotala (ROL), HomeServe (HSV), Cobham (COB), RS Group (RS1), easyJet (EZJ), Signature Aviation (SIG), and BBA Aviation (BBA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
FirstGroup (LON:FGP) and The Go-Ahead Group (LON:GOG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
91.5% of FirstGroup shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of FirstGroup shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
The Go-Ahead Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FirstGroup. FirstGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Go-Ahead Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FirstGroup presently has a consensus price target of GBX 171, indicating a potential upside of 0.18%. Given FirstGroup's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe FirstGroup is more favorable than The Go-Ahead Group.
In the previous week, FirstGroup's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat The Go-Ahead Group's score of 0.00 indicating that FirstGroup is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FirstGroup received 58 more outperform votes than The Go-Ahead Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.46% of users gave The Go-Ahead Group an outperform vote while only 62.66% of users gave FirstGroup an outperform vote.
FirstGroup has a net margin of 0.69% compared to The Go-Ahead Group's net margin of 0.00%. FirstGroup's return on equity of 0.50% beat The Go-Ahead Group's return on equity.
Summary
FirstGroup beats The Go-Ahead Group on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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