MSLH vs. PLP, BREE, SRC, IBST, FORT, MBH, STCM, ECOB, CRH, and JMAT
Should you be buying Marshalls stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marshalls include Genuit Group (PLP), Breedon Group (BREE), SigmaRoc (SRC), Ibstock (IBST), Forterra (FORT), Michelmersh Brick (MBH), Steppe Cement (STCM), Eco Buildings Group (ECOB), CRH (CRH), and Johnson Matthey (JMAT). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Genuit Group (LON:PLP) and Marshalls (LON:MSLH) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Marshalls has higher revenue and earnings than Genuit Group. Genuit Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marshalls, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marshalls has a net margin of 2.77% compared to Marshalls' net margin of 0.00%. Genuit Group's return on equity of 2.83% beat Marshalls' return on equity.
82.1% of Marshalls shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Marshalls shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Marshalls has a consensus target price of GBX 420, indicating a potential upside of 32.91%.
In the previous week, Marshalls had 1 more articles in the media than Genuit Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Marshalls and 2 mentions for Genuit Group. Genuit Group's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Marshalls' score of -0.26 indicating that Marshalls is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Genuit Group received 24 more outperform votes than Marshalls when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.92% of users gave Genuit Group an outperform vote while only 62.81% of users gave Marshalls an outperform vote.
Summary
Marshalls beats Genuit Group on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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