ASC vs. DAL, SQZ, PAC, SHIP, TORO, RYA, PAL, NSH, ALK, and PXS
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), Chenavari Toro Income Fund (TORO), Ryanair (RYA), Equatorial Palm Oil plc (PAL.L) (PAL), Norish (NSH), Alkemy Capital Investments (ALK), and Provexis (PXS). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
ASOS vs. Its Competitors
Dalata Hotel Group (LON:DAL) and ASOS (LON:ASC) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
74.4% of Dalata Hotel Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of ASOS shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Dalata Hotel Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of ASOS shares are held 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.
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, Dalata Hotel Group had 1 more articles in the media than ASOS. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Dalata Hotel Group and 0 mentions for ASOS. ASOS's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Dalata Hotel Group's score of 0.25 indicating that ASOS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 currently has a consensus target price of GBX 480, suggesting a potential downside of 14.29%. ASOS has a consensus target price of GBX 445, suggesting a potential upside of 56.97%. Given ASOS's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ASOS is more favorable than Dalata Hotel Group.
Summary
Dalata Hotel Group beats ASOS on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:ASC) was last updated on 9/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
