HWDN vs. TW, SMDS, KGF, BKG, ENT, BDEV, MKS, PSN, BRBY, and VTY
Should you be buying Howden Joinery Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Howden Joinery Group include Taylor Wimpey (TW), DS Smith (SMDS), Kingfisher (KGF), The Berkeley Group (BKG), Entain (ENT), Barratt Developments (BDEV), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), Persimmon (PSN), Burberry Group (BRBY), and Vistry Group (VTY). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Howden Joinery Group (LON:HWDN) and Taylor Wimpey (LON:TW) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
71.9% of Howden Joinery Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Taylor Wimpey shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Howden Joinery Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Taylor Wimpey 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.
Howden Joinery Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 856.43, suggesting a potential downside of 4.63%. Taylor Wimpey has a consensus price target of GBX 135.50, suggesting a potential downside of 4.17%. Given Taylor Wimpey's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Taylor Wimpey is more favorable than Howden Joinery Group.
Howden Joinery Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Taylor Wimpey pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Howden Joinery Group pays out 4,565.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Taylor Wimpey pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Howden Joinery Group has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Taylor Wimpey has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Howden Joinery Group had 3 more articles in the media than Taylor Wimpey. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Howden Joinery Group and 2 mentions for Taylor Wimpey. Howden Joinery Group's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Taylor Wimpey's score of -0.08 indicating that Howden Joinery Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Taylor Wimpey received 778 more outperform votes than Howden Joinery Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.25% of users gave Taylor Wimpey an outperform vote while only 72.39% of users gave Howden Joinery Group an outperform vote.
Taylor Wimpey has higher revenue and earnings than Howden Joinery Group. Taylor Wimpey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Howden Joinery Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Howden Joinery Group has a net margin of 11.02% compared to Taylor Wimpey's net margin of 9.93%. Howden Joinery Group's return on equity of 27.52% beat Taylor Wimpey's return on equity.
Summary
Howden Joinery Group beats Taylor Wimpey on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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