PPHC vs. AFM, FNTL, RCDO, ELIX, SAG, GTLY, MANO, MJH, SECN, and DRV
Should you be buying Public Policy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Public Policy include Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), Fintel (FNTL), Ricardo (RCDO), Elixirr International (ELIX), Science Group (SAG), Gateley (GTLY), Manolete Partners (MANO), MJ Hudson Group (MJH), SEC Newgate (SECN), and Driver Group (DRV). These companies are all part of the "consulting services" industry.
Public Policy (LON:PPHC) and Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (LON:AFM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.
Public Policy pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Public Policy pays out -11,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays out 11,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Public Policy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
8.6% of Public Policy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 100.4% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by institutional investors. 53.5% of Public Policy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Public Policy. Public Policy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Financial Markets Consulting, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Public Policy's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Alpha Financial Markets Consulting'saverage media sentiment score.
Public Policy has a beta of 0.02, suggesting that its stock price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a consensus price target of GBX 442.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.36%. Given Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is more favorable than Public Policy.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting received 71 more outperform votes than Public Policy when rated by MarketBeat users.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a net margin of 6.35% compared to Public Policy's net margin of -10.55%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's return on equity of 10.24% beat Public Policy's return on equity.
Summary
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting beats Public Policy on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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