HSP vs. DX, XPD, IDS, WIN, SNR, JSG, KIE, GOG, NEX, and EQN
Should you be buying Hargreaves Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hargreaves Services include DX (Group) (DX), Xpediator (XPD), International Distributions Services (IDS), Wincanton (WIN), Senior (SNR), Johnson Service Group (JSG), Kier Group (KIE), The Go-Ahead Group (GOG), National Express Group (NEX), and Equiniti Group (EQN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
DX (Group) (LON:DX) and Hargreaves Services (LON:HSP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
55.8% of DX (Group) shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.1% of Hargreaves Services shares are held by institutional investors. 26.4% of DX (Group) shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Hargreaves Services 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.
Hargreaves Services has a net margin of 6.17% compared to Hargreaves Services' net margin of 4.84%. Hargreaves Services' return on equity of 36.77% beat DX (Group)'s return on equity.
DX (Group) has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hargreaves Services has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
DX (Group) received 27 more outperform votes than Hargreaves Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.56% of users gave DX (Group) an outperform vote while only 57.53% of users gave Hargreaves Services an outperform vote.
DX (Group) pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share. Hargreaves Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. DX (Group) pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hargreaves Services pays out 6,315.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
DX (Group) has higher revenue and earnings than Hargreaves Services. DX (Group) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hargreaves Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, DX (Group) had 4 more articles in the media than Hargreaves Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for DX (Group) and 1 mentions for Hargreaves Services. DX (Group)'s average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Hargreaves Services' score of -0.47 indicating that Hargreaves Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
DX (Group) beats Hargreaves Services on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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