CAR vs. AUTG, STG, SCE, TRT, SCHO, SYM, MIN, HVTA, QUIZ, and WEB
Should you be buying Carclo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carclo include Autins Group (AUTG), Strip Tinning (STG), Surface Transforms (SCE), Transense Technologies (TRT), Scholium Group (SCHO), Symphony Environmental Technologies (SYM), Minoan Group (MIN), Heavitree Brewery (HVTA), QUIZ (QUIZ), and Webis (WEB). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Autins Group (LON:AUTG) and Carclo (LON:CAR) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Autins Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carclo. Autins Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carclo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.7% of Autins Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.6% of Carclo shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of Autins Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.5% of Carclo shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Autins Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Carclo pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.1%. Autins Group pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carclo pays out -3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Carclo received 146 more outperform votes than Autins Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.86% of users gave Carclo an outperform vote while only 65.38% of users gave Autins Group an outperform vote.
Autins Group has a net margin of -4.03% compared to Autins Group's net margin of -4.92%. Carclo's return on equity of -8.10% beat Autins Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Carclo had 1 more articles in the media than Autins Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Carclo and 0 mentions for Autins Group. Autins Group's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Carclo's score of 0.00 indicating that Carclo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Autins Group has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carclo has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Carclo beats Autins Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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