SSPG vs. GRG, GNK, MAB, DOM, EIG, JDW, RTN, YNGA, LGRS, and DPEU
Should you be buying SSP Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SSP Group include Greggs (GRG), Greene King (GNK), Mitchells & Butlers (MAB), Domino's Pizza Group (DOM), Ei Group plc (EIG.L) (EIG), J D Wetherspoon (JDW), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGA), Loungers (LGRS), and DP Eurasia (DPEU). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Greggs (LON:GRG) and SSP Group (LON:SSPG) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and valuation.
59.9% of Greggs shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of SSP Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Greggs shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of SSP Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Greggs currently has a consensus price target of GBX 3,375, indicating a potential upside of 16.86%. SSP Group has a consensus price target of GBX 305, indicating a potential upside of 80.05%. Given Greggs' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SSP Group is more favorable than Greggs.
SSP Group received 93 more outperform votes than Greggs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.58% of users gave SSP Group an outperform vote while only 64.14% of users gave Greggs an outperform vote.
Greggs pays an annual dividend of GBX 62 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. SSP Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Greggs pays out 4,460.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SSP Group pays out 20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Greggs is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Greggs has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SSP Group. Greggs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SSP Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SSP Group had 6 more articles in the media than Greggs. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for SSP Group and 3 mentions for Greggs. SSP Group's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Greggs' score of 0.41 indicating that Greggs is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Greggs has a net margin of 7.87% compared to Greggs' net margin of 0.24%. SSP Group's return on equity of 29.17% beat Greggs' return on equity.
Greggs has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SSP Group has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Greggs beats SSP Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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