JHD vs. FAN, TYMN, GEN, COD, TPK, KLR, REDD, MGAM, RNWH, and WIN
Should you be buying James Halstead stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of James Halstead include Volution Group (FAN), Tyman (TYMN), Genuit Group (GEN), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Travis Perkins (TPK), Keller Group (KLR), Redde Northgate (REDD), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Renew (RNWH), and Wincanton (WIN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
James Halstead (LON:JHD) and Volution Group (LON:FAN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Volution Group has higher revenue and earnings than James Halstead. James Halstead is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Volution Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
James Halstead has a net margin of 13.97% compared to Volution Group's net margin of 12.54%. James Halstead's return on equity of 24.41% beat Volution Group's return on equity.
12.4% of James Halstead shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of Volution Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.4% of James Halstead shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Volution Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Volution Group received 241 more outperform votes than James Halstead when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.96% of users gave Volution Group an outperform vote while only 72.51% of users gave James Halstead an outperform vote.
James Halstead has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Volution Group has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Volution Group had 6 more articles in the media than James Halstead. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Volution Group and 1 mentions for James Halstead. Volution Group's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat James Halstead's score of 0.00 indicating that Volution Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
James Halstead pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Volution Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. James Halstead pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Volution Group pays out 3,809.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Volution Group has a consensus price target of GBX 500, suggesting a potential upside of 15.87%. Given Volution Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Volution Group is more favorable than James Halstead.
Summary
Volution Group beats James Halstead on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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