RS1 vs. DPLM, GFTU, EZJ, ROR, IMI, IDS, BAB, WIZZ, WEIR, and QQ
Should you be buying RS Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RS Group include Diploma (DPLM), Grafton Group (GFTU), easyJet (EZJ), Rotork (ROR), IMI (IMI), International Distributions Services (IDS), Babcock International Group (BAB), Wizz Air (WIZZ), The Weir Group (WEIR), and QinetiQ Group (QQ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
RS Group (LON:RS1) and Diploma (LON:DPLM) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Diploma has a net margin of 9.81% compared to RS Group's net margin of 7.93%. RS Group's return on equity of 17.57% beat Diploma's return on equity.
RS Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,013, suggesting a potential upside of 22.05%. Diploma has a consensus price target of GBX 3,712.50, suggesting a potential downside of 4.86%. Given RS Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RS Group is more favorable than Diploma.
RS Group has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diploma has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
84.4% of RS Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.0% of Diploma shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of RS Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Diploma shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Diploma received 267 more outperform votes than RS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.69% of users gave Diploma an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave RS Group an outperform vote.
RS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Diploma pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. RS Group pays out 4,400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Diploma pays out 6,263.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RS Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, RS Group had 9 more articles in the media than Diploma. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for RS Group and 5 mentions for Diploma. Diploma's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat RS Group's score of 0.13 indicating that Diploma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RS Group has higher revenue and earnings than Diploma. RS Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diploma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Diploma beats RS Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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