ECEL vs. NXR, SRAD, EPWN, ALU, COD, PPHC, GTLY, SUP, FSJ, and AFC
Should you be buying Eurocell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eurocell include Norcros (NXR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Epwin Group (EPWN), The Alumasc Group (ALU), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Public Policy (PPHC), Gateley (GTLY), Supreme (SUP), James Fisher and Sons (FSJ), and AFC Energy (AFC). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Norcros (LON:NXR) and Eurocell (LON:ECEL) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Norcros has higher revenue and earnings than Eurocell. Norcros is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eurocell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Norcros has a net margin of 3.57% compared to Norcros' net margin of 2.63%. Norcros' return on equity of 8.38% beat Eurocell's return on equity.
Norcros pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Eurocell pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Norcros pays out 6,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eurocell pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Norcros is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Eurocell had 1 more articles in the media than Norcros. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Eurocell and 1 mentions for Norcros. Eurocell's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Norcros'average media sentiment score.
Eurocell received 33 more outperform votes than Norcros when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.13% of users gave Norcros an outperform vote while only 80.43% of users gave Eurocell an outperform vote.
71.0% of Norcros shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Eurocell shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Norcros shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Eurocell shares are owned by 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.
Norcros has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eurocell has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Norcros presently has a consensus price target of GBX 320, suggesting a potential upside of 78.77%. Eurocell has a consensus price target of GBX 180, suggesting a potential upside of 33.83%. Given Eurocell's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Norcros is more favorable than Eurocell.
Summary
Norcros beats Eurocell on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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