ASC vs. DAL, SQZ, PAC, SHIP, RYA, TORO, PAL, NSH, PXS, and ALK
Should you be buying ASOS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ASOS include Dalata Hotel Group (DAL), Serica Energy (SQZ), Pacific Assets (PAC), Tufton Oceanic Assets (SHIP), Ryanair (RYA), Chenavari Toro Income Fund (TORO), Equatorial Palm Oil plc (PAL.L) (PAL), Norish (NSH), Provexis (PXS), and Alkemy Capital Investments (ALK). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
ASOS vs.
Dalata Hotel Group (LON:DAL) and ASOS (LON:ASC) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Dalata Hotel Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ASOS. ASOS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dalata Hotel Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dalata Hotel Group has a net margin of 13.44% compared to ASOS's net margin of -11.66%. Dalata Hotel Group's return on equity of 5.96% beat ASOS's return on equity.
Dalata Hotel Group has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASOS has a beta of 2.86, meaning that its share price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ASOS had 2 more articles in the media than Dalata Hotel Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ASOS and 5 mentions for Dalata Hotel Group. Dalata Hotel Group's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat ASOS's score of -0.02 indicating that Dalata Hotel Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dalata Hotel Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 480, suggesting a potential upside of 4.80%. ASOS has a consensus price target of GBX 445, suggesting a potential upside of 55.59%. Given ASOS's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ASOS is more favorable than Dalata Hotel Group.
ASOS received 756 more outperform votes than Dalata Hotel Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.25% of users gave Dalata Hotel Group an outperform vote while only 68.81% of users gave ASOS an outperform vote.
66.0% of Dalata Hotel Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of ASOS shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Dalata Hotel Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.4% of ASOS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Dalata Hotel Group beats ASOS on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ASC) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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