ANX vs. AVAP, HSS, SDY, AA4, ASY, VP, BMS, LORD, CTO, and BILN
Should you be buying Anexo Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Anexo Group include Avation (AVAP), HSS Hire Group (HSS), Speedy Hire (SDY), Amedeo Air Four Plus (AA4), Andrews Sykes Group (ASY), VP (VP), Braemar (BMS), Lords Group Trading (LORD), TClarke (CTO), and Billington (BILN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Avation (LON:AVAP) and Anexo Group (LON:ANX) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Anexo Group has higher revenue and earnings than Avation. Avation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Anexo Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Avation pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Anexo Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Avation pays out -13,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Anexo Group pays out 1,538.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Avation is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Avation presently has a consensus target price of GBX 240, indicating a potential upside of 72.66%. Given Anexo Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Avation is more favorable than Anexo Group.
Avation has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Anexo Group has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Anexo Group had 14 more articles in the media than Avation. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Anexo Group and 3 mentions for Avation. Anexo Group's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Avation's score of -0.09 indicating that Avation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
52.9% of Avation shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.7% of Anexo Group shares are held by institutional investors. 19.5% of Avation shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.2% of Anexo Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Avation received 175 more outperform votes than Anexo Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.10% of users gave Avation an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave Anexo Group an outperform vote.
Anexo Group has a net margin of 10.13% compared to Anexo Group's net margin of -6.02%. Avation's return on equity of 9.88% beat Anexo Group's return on equity.
Summary
Avation beats Anexo Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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