IBST vs. PLP, BREE, MSLH, SRC, FORT, MBH, STCM, ECOB, CRH, and CEY
Should you be buying Ibstock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ibstock include Genuit Group (PLP), Breedon Group (BREE), Marshalls (MSLH), SigmaRoc (SRC), Forterra (FORT), Michelmersh Brick (MBH), Steppe Cement (STCM), Eco Buildings Group (ECOB), CRH (CRH), and Centamin (CEY). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Genuit Group (LON:PLP) and Ibstock (LON:IBST) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Ibstock has a consensus price target of GBX 150, indicating a potential downside of 5.54%. Given Genuit Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ibstock is more favorable than Genuit Group.
Ibstock has higher revenue and earnings than Genuit Group. Genuit Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ibstock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ibstock has a net margin of 5.19% compared to Ibstock's net margin of 0.00%. Genuit Group's return on equity of 5.16% beat Ibstock's return on equity.
Ibstock received 50 more outperform votes than Genuit Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.94% of users gave Ibstock an outperform vote while only 68.92% of users gave Genuit Group an outperform vote.
87.7% of Ibstock shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Ibstock shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ibstock had 2 more articles in the media than Genuit Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ibstock and 1 mentions for Genuit Group. Ibstock's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Genuit Group's score of -0.14 indicating that Genuit Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ibstock beats Genuit Group on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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