BRBY vs. WOSG, IHG, NXT, SKG, JD, MKS, BKG, WTB, TW, and SMDS
Should you be buying Burberry Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burberry Group include Watches of Switzerland Group (WOSG), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), NEXT (NXT), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), JD Sports Fashion (JD), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), The Berkeley Group (BKG), Whitbread (WTB), Taylor Wimpey (TW), and DS Smith (SMDS). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Watches of Switzerland Group (LON:WOSG) and Burberry Group (LON:BRBY) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings and risk.
Burberry Group has a net margin of 9.10% compared to Burberry Group's net margin of 6.77%. Burberry Group's return on equity of 22.14% beat Watches of Switzerland Group's return on equity.
Watches of Switzerland Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 481.67, suggesting a potential upside of 20.78%. Burberry Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,732.33, suggesting a potential upside of 67.54%. Given Watches of Switzerland Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Burberry Group is more favorable than Watches of Switzerland Group.
65.0% of Watches of Switzerland Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Burberry Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Watches of Switzerland Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Burberry Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Watches of Switzerland Group has a beta of 2.07, indicating that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Burberry Group has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Burberry Group received 538 more outperform votes than Watches of Switzerland Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.11% of users gave Watches of Switzerland Group an outperform vote while only 45.05% of users gave Burberry Group an outperform vote.
Burberry Group has higher revenue and earnings than Watches of Switzerland Group. Watches of Switzerland Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Burberry Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Burberry Group had 4 more articles in the media than Watches of Switzerland Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Burberry Group and 0 mentions for Watches of Switzerland Group. Burberry Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Watches of Switzerland Group's score of -0.08 indicating that Watches of Switzerland Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Burberry Group beats Watches of Switzerland Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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