MOON vs. SMWH, PETS, CURY, APGN, CARD, HFD, FDL, IGR, STU, and SCS
Should you be buying Moonpig Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Moonpig Group include WH Smith (SMWH), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Currys (CURY), Applegreen (APGN), Card Factory (CARD), Halfords Group (HFD), Findel (FDL), IG Design Group (IGR), Studio Retail Group (STU), and ScS Group (SCS). These companies are all part of the "specialty retail" industry.
Moonpig Group (LON:MOON) and WH Smith (LON:SMWH) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Moonpig Group has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WH Smith has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, WH Smith had 3 more articles in the media than Moonpig Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for WH Smith and 0 mentions for Moonpig Group. WH Smith's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Moonpig Group's score of -0.87 indicating that WH Smith is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Moonpig Group has a net margin of 10.58% compared to WH Smith's net margin of 3.44%. WH Smith's return on equity of 22.29% beat Moonpig Group's return on equity.
Moonpig Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 231.25, suggesting a potential upside of 44.53%. WH Smith has a consensus target price of GBX 1,967.50, suggesting a potential upside of 71.09%. Given WH Smith's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe WH Smith is more favorable than Moonpig Group.
75.8% of Moonpig Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of WH Smith shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Moonpig Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of WH Smith shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
WH Smith received 447 more outperform votes than Moonpig Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Moonpig Group an outperform vote while only 62.42% of users gave WH Smith an outperform vote.
WH Smith has higher revenue and earnings than Moonpig Group. Moonpig 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.
Summary
WH Smith beats Moonpig Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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