SOM vs. JAR, DLAR, BEG, HSP, SRAD, SAG, NXR, CGS, GTLY, and SUP
Should you be buying Somero Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Somero Enterprises include Jardine Matheson (JAR), De La Rue (DLAR), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Hargreaves Services (HSP), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Science Group (SAG), Norcros (NXR), Castings (CGS), Gateley (GTLY), and Supreme (SUP). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Somero Enterprises (LON:SOM) and Jardine Matheson (LON:JAR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
In the previous week, Somero Enterprises had 1 more articles in the media than Jardine Matheson. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Somero Enterprises and 1 mentions for Jardine Matheson. Somero Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Jardine Matheson's score of -0.09 indicating that Somero Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Somero Enterprises has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jardine Matheson has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
53.7% of Somero Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.7% of Jardine Matheson shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Somero Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of Jardine Matheson shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Somero Enterprises received 82 more outperform votes than Jardine Matheson when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.75% of users gave Jardine Matheson an outperform vote while only 63.24% of users gave Somero Enterprises an outperform vote.
Jardine Matheson has higher revenue and earnings than Somero Enterprises. Jardine Matheson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Somero Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Somero Enterprises has a net margin of 23.18% compared to Jardine Matheson's net margin of 1.90%. Somero Enterprises' return on equity of 34.89% beat Jardine Matheson's return on equity.
Somero Enterprises pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Jardine Matheson pays an annual dividend of GBX 226 per share and has a dividend yield of 361.6%. Somero Enterprises pays out 6,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Jardine Matheson pays out 13,294.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Somero Enterprises beats Jardine Matheson on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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