SNR vs. CHG, AVON, CHRT, QQ, RWS, RNWH, MEGP, ICGC, WIN, and KLR
Should you be buying Senior stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Senior include Chemring Group (CHG), Avon Protection (AVON), Cohort (CHRT), QinetiQ Group (QQ), RWS (RWS), Renew (RNWH), ME Group International (MEGP), Irish Continental Group (ICGC), Wincanton (WIN), and Keller Group (KLR). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Senior (LON:SNR) and Chemring Group (LON:CHG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Chemring Group has a consensus target price of GBX 370, indicating a potential downside of 2.19%. Given Chemring Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chemring Group is more favorable than Senior.
Senior pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Chemring Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Senior pays out 2,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chemring Group pays out 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Senior received 284 more outperform votes than Chemring Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave Senior an outperform vote while only 61.32% of users gave Chemring Group an outperform vote.
Senior has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Chemring Group's net margin of 1.14%. Chemring Group's return on equity of 9.47% beat Senior's return on equity.
In the previous week, Senior had 7 more articles in the media than Chemring Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Senior and 2 mentions for Chemring Group. Chemring Group's average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat Senior's score of -0.49 indicating that Chemring Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chemring Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Senior. Senior is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemring Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.1% of Senior shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 112.9% of Chemring Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Senior shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Chemring Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Senior has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chemring Group has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chemring Group beats Senior on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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