OCN vs. ICGC, GPH, FSJ, CKN, CGEO, MRL, AFM, RWI, GDWN, and TFW
Should you be buying Ocean Wilsons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ocean Wilsons include Irish Continental Group (ICGC), Global Ports (GPH), James Fisher and Sons (FSJ), Clarkson (CKN), Georgia Capital (CGEO), Marlowe (MRL), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), Renewi (RWI), Goodwin (GDWN), and FW Thorpe (TFW). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Irish Continental Group (LON:ICGC) and Ocean Wilsons (LON:OCN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Irish Continental Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ocean Wilsons pays an annual dividend of GBX 67 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Irish Continental Group pays out 4,193.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ocean Wilsons pays out 4,437.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Ocean Wilsons has a net margin of 13.78% compared to Ocean Wilsons' net margin of 10.77%. Ocean Wilsons' return on equity of 22.68% beat Irish Continental Group's return on equity.
Ocean Wilsons received 109 more outperform votes than Irish Continental Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.69% of users gave Ocean Wilsons an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave Irish Continental Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Irish Continental Group had 1 more articles in the media than Ocean Wilsons. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Irish Continental Group and 3 mentions for Ocean Wilsons. Irish Continental Group's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Ocean Wilsons' score of 0.00 indicating that Ocean Wilsons is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ocean Wilsons has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Irish Continental Group. Ocean Wilsons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Irish Continental Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
40.0% of Irish Continental Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.6% of Ocean Wilsons shares are held by institutional investors. 23.5% of Irish Continental Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.6% of Ocean Wilsons shares are held by company 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.
Irish Continental Group has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ocean Wilsons has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Irish Continental Group beats Ocean Wilsons on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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