ALU vs. EPWN, ECEL, NXR, SRAD, FLO, RFX, MANO, DIA, GMAA, and BILN
Should you be buying The Alumasc Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Alumasc Group include Epwin Group (EPWN), Eurocell (ECEL), Norcros (NXR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), Ramsdens (RFX), Manolete Partners (MANO), Dialight (DIA), Gama Aviation (GMAA), and Billington (BILN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
The Alumasc Group (LON:ALU) and Epwin Group (LON:EPWN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Epwin Group has higher revenue and earnings than The Alumasc Group. The Alumasc Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Epwin Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
45.2% of The Alumasc Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of Epwin Group shares are held by institutional investors. 49.6% of The Alumasc Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.3% of Epwin Group shares are held 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.
The Alumasc Group received 232 more outperform votes than Epwin Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.92% of users gave The Alumasc Group an outperform vote while only 70.42% of users gave Epwin Group an outperform vote.
The Alumasc Group has a net margin of 8.71% compared to Epwin Group's net margin of 2.69%. The Alumasc Group's return on equity of 33.91% beat Epwin Group's return on equity.
The Alumasc Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Epwin Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. The Alumasc Group pays out 4,545.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Epwin Group pays out 8,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
The Alumasc Group has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Epwin Group has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The Alumasc Group and The Alumasc Group both had 2 articles in the media. Epwin Group's average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat The Alumasc Group's score of -0.34 indicating that Epwin Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
The Alumasc Group beats Epwin Group on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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