SRAD vs. COD, SUR, NXR, ECEL, KGP, EPWN, ALU, TON, NTBR, and HSM
Should you be buying Stelrad Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stelrad Group include Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Sureserve Group (SUR), Norcros (NXR), Eurocell (ECEL), Kingspan Group (KGP), Epwin Group (EPWN), The Alumasc Group (ALU), Titon (TON), Northern Bear (NTBR), and Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Stelrad Group (LON:SRAD) and Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (LON:COD) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain received 194 more outperform votes than Stelrad Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
Stelrad Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays an annual dividend of GBX 210 per share and has a dividend yield of 263.9%. Stelrad Group pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays out 4,015.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a net margin of 5.57% compared to Stelrad Group's net margin of 5.01%. Stelrad Group's return on equity of 28.93% beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's return on equity.
Stelrad Group has a beta of 0.17, suggesting that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Stelrad Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Compagnie de Saint-Gobain'saverage media sentiment score.
37.7% of Stelrad Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.3% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are owned by institutional investors. 65.3% of Stelrad Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has higher revenue and earnings than Stelrad Group. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stelrad Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain beats Stelrad Group on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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