SLNG vs. PHSC, SNT, EQT, IGE, CMH, LIFS, CEPS, LIB, PEG, and AUK
Should you be buying H C Slingsby stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H C Slingsby include PHSC (PHSC), Sabien Technology Group (SNT), EQTEC (EQT), Image Scan (IGE), Chamberlin (CMH), LifeSafe (LIFS), Ceps (CEPS), Libertine (LIB), Petards Group (PEG), and Aukett Swanke Group (AUK). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
H C Slingsby (LON:SLNG) and PHSC (LON:PHSC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
H C Slingsby pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. PHSC pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. H C Slingsby pays out 3,636.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PHSC pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
H C Slingsby has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PHSC has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PHSC received 100 more outperform votes than H C Slingsby when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.86% of users gave H C Slingsby an outperform vote while only 53.91% of users gave PHSC an outperform vote.
12.2% of PHSC shares are held by institutional investors. 91.1% of H C Slingsby shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 52.5% of PHSC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
H C Slingsby is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PHSC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PHSC had 4 more articles in the media than H C Slingsby. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for PHSC and 0 mentions for H C Slingsby. H C Slingsby's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled PHSC'saverage media sentiment score.
PHSC has a net margin of 7.60% compared to H C Slingsby's net margin of 1.03%. PHSC's return on equity of 7.23% beat H C Slingsby's return on equity.
Summary
PHSC beats H C Slingsby on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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