HARL vs. VEL, BMT, REAT, RBGP, CPP, FA, SUH, TRYB, RAI, and RTC
Should you be buying Harland & Wolff Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harland & Wolff Group include Velocity Composites (VEL), Braime Group (BMT), REACT Group (REAT), RBG (RBGP), CPPGroup (CPP), FireAngel Safety Technology Group (FA), Sutton Harbour Group (SUH), Tribe Technology (TRYB), RA International Group (RAI), and RTC Group (RTC). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Velocity Composites (LON:VEL) and Harland & Wolff Group (LON:HARL) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Velocity Composites has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Harland & Wolff Group. Velocity Composites is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Harland & Wolff Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Velocity Composites has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harland & Wolff Group has a beta of 3.06, indicating that its share price is 206% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Velocity Composites has a net margin of -19.15% compared to Velocity Composites' net margin of -221.09%. Velocity Composites' return on equity of 0.00% beat Harland & Wolff Group's return on equity.
Velocity Composites currently has a consensus price target of GBX 70, suggesting a potential upside of 75.26%. Given Harland & Wolff Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Velocity Composites is more favorable than Harland & Wolff Group.
In the previous week, Velocity Composites had 4 more articles in the media than Harland & Wolff Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Velocity Composites and 6 mentions for Harland & Wolff Group. Harland & Wolff Group's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat Velocity Composites' score of 0.06 indicating that Velocity Composites is being referred to more favorably in the media.
35.3% of Velocity Composites shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.2% of Harland & Wolff Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.7% of Velocity Composites shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.8% of Harland & Wolff Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Velocity Composites received 89 more outperform votes than Harland & Wolff Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Velocity Composites beats Harland & Wolff Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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