VP vs. REDD, NTG, ASY, AA4, SDY, AVAP, ANX, HSS, OPM, and DPA
Should you be buying VP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VP include Redde Northgate (REDD), Northgate (NTG), Andrews Sykes Group (ASY), Amedeo Air Four Plus (AA4), Speedy Hire (SDY), Avation (AVAP), Anexo Group (ANX), HSS Hire Group (HSS), 1pm plc (OPM.L) (OPM), and DP Aircraft I (DPA). These companies are all part of the "rental & leasing services" industry.
Redde Northgate (LON:REDD) and VP (LON:VP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Redde Northgate presently has a consensus target price of GBX 450, indicating a potential upside of 4.77%. VP has a consensus target price of GBX 950, indicating a potential upside of 36.69%. Given Redde Northgate's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe VP is more favorable than Redde Northgate.
Redde Northgate has higher revenue and earnings than VP. Redde Northgate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Redde Northgate pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. VP pays an annual dividend of GBX 38 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Redde Northgate pays out 4,386.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VP pays out 6,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Redde Northgate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, VP had 13 more articles in the media than Redde Northgate. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for VP and 0 mentions for Redde Northgate. Redde Northgate's average media sentiment score of 0.14 beat VP's score of 0.00 indicating that VP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Redde Northgate has a net margin of 7.73% compared to Redde Northgate's net margin of 6.33%. Redde Northgate's return on equity of 13.63% beat VP's return on equity.
Redde Northgate has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VP has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
66.0% of Redde Northgate shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.7% of VP shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Redde Northgate shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 54.9% of VP shares are held 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.
Redde Northgate received 47 more outperform votes than VP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.06% of users gave Redde Northgate an outperform vote while only 58.99% of users gave VP an outperform vote.
Summary
Redde Northgate beats VP on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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