ALU vs. COD, NXR, SUR, ECEL, SRAD, EPWN, KGP, HSM, TON, and NTBR
Should you be buying The Alumasc Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Alumasc Group include Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Norcros (NXR), Sureserve Group (SUR), Eurocell (ECEL), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Epwin Group (EPWN), Kingspan Group (KGP), Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM), Titon (TON), and Northern Bear (NTBR). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
The Alumasc Group vs.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (LON:COD) and The Alumasc Group (LON:ALU) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
The Alumasc Group received 238 more outperform votes than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.92% of users gave The Alumasc Group an outperform vote while only 76.68% of users gave Compagnie de Saint-Gobain an outperform vote.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays an annual dividend of GBX 210 per share and has a dividend yield of 244.4%. The Alumasc Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays out 3,690.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. The Alumasc Group pays out 4,583.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has higher revenue and earnings than The Alumasc Group. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Alumasc Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Alumasc Group has a net margin of 8.69% compared to Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's net margin of 6.20%. The Alumasc Group's return on equity of 29.51% beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's return on equity.
52.6% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.8% of The Alumasc Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.0% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.2% of The Alumasc Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Alumasc Group has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled The Alumasc Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
The Alumasc Group beats Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:ALU) was last updated on 12/3/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
