SMWH vs. FRAS, SPD, DNLM, PETS, CURY, APGN, MOON, HFD, CARD, and IGR
Should you be buying WH Smith stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WH Smith include Frasers Group (FRAS), Sports Direct International (SPD), Dunelm Group (DNLM), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Currys (CURY), Applegreen (APGN), Moonpig Group (MOON), Halfords Group (HFD), Card Factory (CARD), and IG Design Group (IGR). These companies are all part of the "specialty retail" industry.
Frasers Group (LON:FRAS) and WH Smith (LON:SMWH) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Frasers Group has a net margin of 9.37% compared to Frasers Group's net margin of 3.44%. WH Smith's return on equity of 34.63% beat Frasers Group's return on equity.
Frasers Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 630, indicating a potential downside of 27.75%. WH Smith has a consensus target price of GBX 1,817.50, indicating a potential upside of 53.38%. Given Frasers Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe WH Smith is more favorable than Frasers Group.
16.4% of Frasers Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of WH Smith shares are held by institutional investors. 77.2% of Frasers Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of WH Smith shares are held 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.
In the previous week, WH Smith had 2 more articles in the media than Frasers Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for WH Smith and 1 mentions for Frasers Group. Frasers Group's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat WH Smith's score of 0.00 indicating that WH Smith is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Frasers Group has higher revenue and earnings than WH Smith. Frasers Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WH Smith, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Frasers Group has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WH Smith has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
WH Smith received 464 more outperform votes than Frasers Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.47% of users gave WH Smith an outperform vote while only 48.00% of users gave Frasers Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Frasers Group beats WH Smith on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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