TUNE vs. BOWL, PHTM, TEG, GYM, CCT, TCG, ESC, HRN, XPF, and GOAL
Should you be buying Focusrite stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Focusrite include Hollywood Bowl Group (BOWL), Photo-Me International (PHTM), Ten Entertainment Group (TEG), The Gym Group (GYM), The Character Group (CCT), Thomas Cook Group (TCG), Escape Hunt (ESC), Hornby (HRN), XP Factory (XPF), and Goals Soccer Centres (GOAL). These companies are all part of the "leisure" industry.
Focusrite (LON:TUNE) and Hollywood Bowl Group (LON:BOWL) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Focusrite currently has a consensus price target of GBX 410, indicating a potential upside of 5.81%. Hollywood Bowl Group has a consensus price target of GBX 410, indicating a potential upside of 23.49%. Given Hollywood Bowl Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hollywood Bowl Group is more favorable than Focusrite.
In the previous week, Hollywood Bowl Group had 1 more articles in the media than Focusrite. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Hollywood Bowl Group and 1 mentions for Focusrite. Hollywood Bowl Group's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Focusrite's score of 0.00 indicating that Hollywood Bowl Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
49.5% of Focusrite shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.0% of Focusrite shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Focusrite has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hollywood Bowl Group has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hollywood Bowl Group received 70 more outperform votes than Focusrite when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.57% of users gave Hollywood Bowl Group an outperform vote while only 80.65% of users gave Focusrite an outperform vote.
Hollywood Bowl Group has higher revenue and earnings than Focusrite. Hollywood Bowl Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Focusrite, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Focusrite pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Hollywood Bowl Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Focusrite pays out 3,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hollywood Bowl Group pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Hollywood Bowl Group has a net margin of 15.88% compared to Focusrite's net margin of 6.99%. Hollywood Bowl Group's return on equity of 23.85% beat Focusrite's return on equity.
Summary
Hollywood Bowl Group beats Focusrite on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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