VLX vs. TFW, CWR, LUCE, XPP, SUP, SMS, STEM, CGEO, JSG, and KIE
Should you be buying Volex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Volex include FW Thorpe (TFW), Ceres Power (CWR), Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Supreme (SUP), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), SThree (STEM), Georgia Capital (CGEO), Johnson Service Group (JSG), and Kier Group (KIE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Volex (LON:VLX) and FW Thorpe (LON:TFW) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Volex pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. FW Thorpe pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Volex pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.
Volex presently has a consensus price target of GBX 420, suggesting a potential upside of 26.70%. Given Volex's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Volex is more favorable than FW Thorpe.
Volex received 187 more outperform votes than FW Thorpe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.56% of users gave Volex an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave FW Thorpe an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Volex had 2 more articles in the media than FW Thorpe. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Volex and 0 mentions for FW Thorpe. Volex's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat FW Thorpe's score of 0.00 indicating that Volex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FW Thorpe has a net margin of 12.47% compared to Volex's net margin of 4.67%. Volex's return on equity of 14.16% beat FW Thorpe's return on equity.
Volex has higher revenue and earnings than FW Thorpe. FW Thorpe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Volex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
40.3% of Volex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of FW Thorpe shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.0% of Volex shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 70.8% of FW Thorpe shares are owned by company 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.
Volex has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FW Thorpe has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Volex beats FW Thorpe on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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