PTSB vs. NBS, MFX, TFG, NBDG, WINV, ALK, ALGW, AFN, 47IE, and FKE
Should you be buying Permanent TSB Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Permanent TSB Group include Nationwide Building Society (NBS), Manx Financial Group (MFX), Tetragon Financial (TFG), NB Distressed Debt New Glb (NBDG), Worsley Investors (WINV), Alkemy Capital Investments (ALK), Alpha Growth (ALGW), ADVFN (AFN), S&U (47IE), and Fiske (FKE). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Permanent TSB Group (LON:PTSB) and Nationwide Building Society (LON:NBS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Nationwide Building Society has a net margin of 33.58% compared to Permanent TSB Group's net margin of 11.11%. Nationwide Building Society's return on equity of 9.86% beat Permanent TSB Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Nationwide Building Society had 2 more articles in the media than Permanent TSB Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Nationwide Building Society and 0 mentions for Permanent TSB Group. Nationwide Building Society's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Permanent TSB Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Nationwide Building Society is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Permanent TSB Group has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nationwide Building Society has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nationwide Building Society received 63 more outperform votes than Permanent TSB Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
10.7% of Permanent TSB Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 138.0% of Nationwide Building Society shares are owned by institutional investors. 75.9% of Permanent TSB Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nationwide Building Society has higher revenue and earnings than Permanent TSB Group. Permanent TSB Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nationwide Building Society, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Nationwide Building Society beats Permanent TSB Group on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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