GFRD vs. COST, SFR, CTO, BILN, KIE, RNWH, KLR, LUCE, XPP, and ELIX
Should you be buying Galliford Try stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Galliford Try include Costain Group (COST), Severfield (SFR), TClarke (CTO), Billington (BILN), Kier Group (KIE), Renew (RNWH), Keller Group (KLR), Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), and Elixirr International (ELIX). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Galliford Try (LON:GFRD) and Costain Group (LON:COST) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Costain Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Galliford Try. Costain Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Galliford Try, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Costain Group had 2 more articles in the media than Galliford Try. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Costain Group and 1 mentions for Galliford Try. Galliford Try's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Costain Group's score of 0.23 indicating that Galliford Try is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Costain Group has a net margin of 1.66% compared to Galliford Try's net margin of 0.94%. Galliford Try's return on equity of 12.63% beat Costain Group's return on equity.
Costain Group received 152 more outperform votes than Galliford Try when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.18% of users gave Costain Group an outperform vote while only 71.33% of users gave Galliford Try an outperform vote.
Galliford Try currently has a consensus price target of GBX 300, indicating a potential upside of 23.97%. Given Galliford Try's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Galliford Try is more favorable than Costain Group.
63.6% of Galliford Try shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.2% of Costain Group shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Galliford Try shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.4% of Costain Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Galliford Try pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Costain Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Galliford Try pays out 8,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Costain Group pays out 1,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Galliford Try has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Costain Group has a beta of 2.4, suggesting that its share price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Costain Group beats Galliford Try on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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