ARC vs. CRL, FCCN, FA, ROL, MAST, ADV, ABM, RGP, LEAF, and NEO
Should you be buying Arcontech Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcontech Group include Creightons (CRL), French Connection Group (FCCN), FireAngel Safety Technology Group (FA), Rotala (ROL), MAST Energy Developments (MAST), Advance Energy (ADV), African Battery Metals (ABM), Ross Group (RGP), Leaf Clean Energy (LEAF), and Neo Energy Metals (NEO). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Arcontech Group vs. Its Competitors
Creightons (LON:CRL) and Arcontech Group (LON:ARC) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Arcontech Group received 94 more outperform votes than Creightons when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.76% of users gave Creightons an outperform vote while only 62.17% of users gave Arcontech Group an outperform vote.
15.6% of Creightons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.9% of Arcontech Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.1% of Creightons shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 54.5% of Arcontech Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Arcontech Group has a net margin of 36.69% compared to Creightons' net margin of -6.63%. Arcontech Group's return on equity of 13.37% beat Creightons' return on equity.
Creightons pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Arcontech Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Creightons pays out -19.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Arcontech Group pays out 51.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Creightons' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Arcontech Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Creightons has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arcontech Group has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arcontech Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Creightons. Creightons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcontech Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Arcontech Group beats Creightons on 10 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:ARC) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
