HILS vs. MGNS, BBY, KLR, RNWH, KIE, BAB, HAS, PAGE, MTO, and TPK
Should you be buying Hill & Smith stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hill & Smith include Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Balfour Beatty (BBY), Keller Group (KLR), Renew (RNWH), Kier Group (KIE), Babcock International Group (BAB), Hays (HAS), PageGroup (PAGE), Mitie Group (MTO), and Travis Perkins (TPK). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Morgan Sindall Group (LON:MGNS) and Hill & Smith (LON:HILS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
Morgan Sindall Group has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hill & Smith has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Morgan Sindall Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 3,000, indicating a potential upside of 24.22%. Hill & Smith has a consensus price target of GBX 1,903.33, indicating a potential downside of 1.28%. Given Hill & Smith's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Morgan Sindall Group is more favorable than Hill & Smith.
Morgan Sindall Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hill & Smith. Morgan Sindall Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hill & Smith, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.7% of Morgan Sindall Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.9% of Hill & Smith shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Morgan Sindall Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Hill & Smith shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Morgan Sindall Group received 35 more outperform votes than Hill & Smith when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.26% of users gave Morgan Sindall Group an outperform vote while only 70.39% of users gave Hill & Smith an outperform vote.
Morgan Sindall Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 114 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Hill & Smith pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Morgan Sindall Group pays out 4,560.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hill & Smith pays out 5,058.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Morgan Sindall Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Hill & Smith had 1 more articles in the media than Morgan Sindall Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Hill & Smith and 2 mentions for Morgan Sindall Group. Hill & Smith's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Morgan Sindall Group's score of -0.28 indicating that Morgan Sindall Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hill & Smith has a net margin of 8.29% compared to Hill & Smith's net margin of 2.86%. Hill & Smith's return on equity of 22.12% beat Morgan Sindall Group's return on equity.
Summary
Morgan Sindall Group beats Hill & Smith on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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