HERC vs. RAI, TGP, KINO, NEXS, AUK, VANL, SMJ, BILN, GELN, and EMR
Should you be buying Hercules Site Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hercules Site Services include RA International Group (RAI), Tekmar Group (TGP), Kinovo (KINO), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), Aukett Swanke Group (AUK), Van Elle (VANL), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Billington (BILN), Gelion (GELN), and Empresaria Group (EMR). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Hercules Site Services (LON:HERC) and RA International Group (LON:RAI) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Hercules Site Services has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RA International Group has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RA International Group received 16 more outperform votes than Hercules Site Services when rated by MarketBeat users.
Hercules Site Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. RA International Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. Hercules Site Services pays out 20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RA International Group pays out -1,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RA International Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
11.9% of Hercules Site Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.9% of RA International Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 78.0% of Hercules Site Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 89.3% of RA International Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hercules Site Services has a net margin of 0.91% compared to RA International Group's net margin of -19.03%. Hercules Site Services' return on equity of 9.94% beat RA International Group's return on equity.
Hercules Site Services has higher revenue and earnings than RA International Group. RA International Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hercules Site Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RA International Group has a consensus target price of GBX 25, suggesting a potential upside of 224.68%. Given RA International Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RA International Group is more favorable than Hercules Site Services.
In the previous week, Hercules Site Services had 3 more articles in the media than RA International Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Hercules Site Services and 1 mentions for RA International Group. Hercules Site Services' average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat RA International Group's score of -1.20 indicating that Hercules Site Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hercules Site Services beats RA International Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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