RWI vs. TFW, OCN, MRL, GDWN, AFM, FRAN, LSC, AVON, JSG, and CGEO
Should you be buying Renewi stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Renewi include FW Thorpe (TFW), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Marlowe (MRL), Goodwin (GDWN), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), Franchise Brands (FRAN), London Security (LSC), Avon Protection (AVON), Johnson Service Group (JSG), and Georgia Capital (CGEO). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Renewi (LON:RWI) and FW Thorpe (LON:TFW) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Renewi presently has a consensus target price of GBX 710, suggesting a potential upside of 23.69%. Given Renewi's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Renewi is more favorable than FW Thorpe.
Renewi has higher revenue and earnings than FW Thorpe. Renewi is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FW Thorpe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FW Thorpe had 3 more articles in the media than Renewi. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for FW Thorpe and 1 mentions for Renewi. FW Thorpe's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Renewi's score of 0.27 indicating that FW Thorpe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
78.0% of Renewi shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of FW Thorpe shares are held by institutional investors. 11.3% of Renewi shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 70.8% of FW Thorpe shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Renewi received 176 more outperform votes than FW Thorpe when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave FW Thorpe an outperform vote while only 68.71% of users gave Renewi an outperform vote.
Renewi has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FW Thorpe has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
FW Thorpe has a net margin of 12.47% compared to Renewi's net margin of 2.36%. FW Thorpe's return on equity of 14.11% beat Renewi's return on equity.
Renewi pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. FW Thorpe pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Renewi pays out 212.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. FW Thorpe pays out 3,684.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
FW Thorpe beats Renewi on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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