FERG vs. RR, EXPN, BA, AHT, RTO, IAG, REL, DPLM, RS1, and GFTU
Should you be buying Ferguson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ferguson include Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (RR), Experian (EXPN), BAE Systems (BA), Ashtead Group (AHT), Rentokil Initial (RTO), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Relx (REL), Diploma (DPLM), RS Group (RS1), and Grafton Group (GFTU). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (LON:RR) and Ferguson (LON:FERG) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc currently has a consensus price target of GBX 342.20, suggesting a potential downside of 16.02%. Ferguson has a consensus price target of £105.70, suggesting a potential downside of 37.42%. Given Ferguson's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is more favorable than Ferguson.
64.0% of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Ferguson shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Ferguson shares are owned 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.
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ferguson has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Ferguson pays an annual dividend of GBX 248 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Rolls-Royce Holdings plc pays out 4,137.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ferguson pays out 3,636.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc has a net margin of 14.63% compared to Rolls-Royce Holdings plc's net margin of 6.00%. Rolls-Royce Holdings plc's return on equity of 34.72% beat Ferguson's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ferguson had 12 more articles in the media than Rolls-Royce Holdings plc. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Ferguson and 8 mentions for Rolls-Royce Holdings plc. Ferguson's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Rolls-Royce Holdings plc's score of -0.02 indicating that Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ferguson. Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ferguson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ferguson received 327 more outperform votes than Rolls-Royce Holdings plc when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.53% of users gave Ferguson an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Rolls-Royce Holdings plc an outperform vote.
Summary
Ferguson beats Rolls-Royce Holdings plc on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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