CPI vs. KEYS, DLAR, BEG, RST, KGH, INSE, SFT, FRAN, WATR, and JSG
Should you be buying Capita stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capita include Keystone Law Group (KEYS), De La Rue (DLAR), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Restore (RST), Knights Group (KGH), Inspired (INSE), Software Circle (SFT), Franchise Brands (FRAN), Water Intelligence (WATR), and Johnson Service Group (JSG). These companies are all part of the "specialty business services" industry.
Capita (LON:CPI) and Keystone Law Group (LON:KEYS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Capita pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 236.3%. Keystone Law Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Capita pays out -32,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Keystone Law Group pays out 7,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Capita is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
79.3% of Capita shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Keystone Law Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Capita shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 43.4% of Keystone Law Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Keystone Law Group has a net margin of 8.59% compared to Capita's net margin of -6.33%. Keystone Law Group's return on equity of 43.96% beat Capita's return on equity.
Capita received 428 more outperform votes than Keystone Law Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.00% of users gave Keystone Law Group an outperform vote while only 52.79% of users gave Capita an outperform vote.
Keystone Law Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Capita. Capita is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Keystone Law Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Capita had 3 more articles in the media than Keystone Law Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Capita and 4 mentions for Keystone Law Group. Capita's average media sentiment score of 0.04 beat Keystone Law Group's score of -0.01 indicating that Capita is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Capita currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,800, suggesting a potential upside of 13,193.94%. Given Capita's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Capita is more favorable than Keystone Law Group.
Capita has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keystone Law Group has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Keystone Law Group beats Capita on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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