SMJ vs. VANL, KINO, BILN, HERC, RAI, CTO, TGP, STAF, DWHT, and IKA
Should you be buying J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC include Van Elle (VANL), Kinovo (KINO), Billington (BILN), Hercules Site Services (HERC), RA International Group (RAI), TClarke (CTO), Tekmar Group (TGP), Staffline Group (STAF), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), and Ilika (IKA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Van Elle (LON:VANL) and J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (LON:SMJ) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Van Elle has a net margin of 2.60% compared to Van Elle's net margin of 0.74%. J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC's return on equity of 7.10% beat Van Elle's return on equity.
Van Elle pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Van Elle pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Van Elle has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC has a beta of 0.14, suggesting that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Van Elle'saverage media sentiment score.
Van Elle received 134 more outperform votes than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.28% of users gave Van Elle an outperform vote while only 67.31% of users gave J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC an outperform vote.
67.4% of Van Elle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.9% of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Van Elle shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 80.6% of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC shares are held by 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.
Van Elle has higher revenue and earnings than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC.
Summary
Van Elle beats J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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