HLMA vs. CGEO, MSI, JAR, JARB, RFX, FIH, STRL, PHSC, VCBC, and BASK
Should you be buying Halma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Halma include Georgia Capital (CGEO), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Jardine Matheson (JAR), Jardine Matheson (JARB), Ramsdens (RFX), FIH group (FIH), Stirling Industries (STRL), PHSC (PHSC), Vertu Capital (VCBC), and Baskerville Capital (BASK). These companies are all part of the "conglomerates" industry.
Halma (LON:HLMA) and Georgia Capital (LON:CGEO) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability and dividends.
Georgia Capital has a net margin of 136.14% compared to Halma's net margin of 12.35%. Georgia Capital's return on equity of 19.65% beat Halma's return on equity.
Halma has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Georgia Capital has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Halma had 1 more articles in the media than Georgia Capital. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Halma and 0 mentions for Georgia Capital. Halma's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Georgia Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Halma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
61.3% of Halma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.2% of Georgia Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Halma shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Georgia Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Halma received 397 more outperform votes than Georgia Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.38% of users gave Georgia Capital an outperform vote while only 57.26% of users gave Halma an outperform vote.
Georgia Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Halma. Georgia Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Halma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Halma currently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,315, indicating a potential upside of 1.36%. Given Halma's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Halma is more favorable than Georgia Capital.
Summary
Halma beats Georgia Capital on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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