ASY vs. VP, AA4, SDY, AVAP, ANX, REDD, CHRT, XPP, RCDO, and CWR
Should you be buying Andrews Sykes Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Andrews Sykes Group include VP (VP), Amedeo Air Four Plus (AA4), Speedy Hire (SDY), Avation (AVAP), Anexo Group (ANX), Redde Northgate (REDD), Cohort (CHRT), XP Power (XPP), Ricardo (RCDO), and Ceres Power (CWR). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Andrews Sykes Group (LON:ASY) and VP (LON:VP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and community ranking.
In the previous week, VP had 53 more articles in the media than Andrews Sykes Group. MarketBeat recorded 53 mentions for VP and 0 mentions for Andrews Sykes Group. Andrews Sykes Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat VP's score of -0.06 indicating that Andrews Sykes Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Andrews Sykes Group has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VP has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Andrews Sykes Group has a net margin of 21.53% compared to VP's net margin of 6.33%. Andrews Sykes Group's return on equity of 27.23% beat VP's return on equity.
VP received 78 more outperform votes than Andrews Sykes Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.47% of users gave Andrews Sykes Group an outperform vote while only 58.80% of users gave VP an outperform vote.
VP has a consensus target price of GBX 1,040, suggesting a potential upside of 87.39%. Given VP's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe VP is more favorable than Andrews Sykes Group.
38.6% of VP shares are owned by institutional investors. 91.7% of Andrews Sykes Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 56.2% of VP 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.
VP has higher revenue and earnings than Andrews Sykes Group. VP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Andrews Sykes Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Andrews Sykes Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. VP pays an annual dividend of GBX 38 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Andrews Sykes Group pays out 6,046.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VP pays out 6,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
VP beats Andrews Sykes Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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