BKG vs. TW, RDW, WEIR, IMI, HSV, COB, EZJ, RS1, SIG, and BBA
Should you be buying The Berkeley Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Berkeley Group include Taylor Wimpey (TW), Redrow (RDW), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), HomeServe (HSV), Cobham (COB), easyJet (EZJ), RS Group (RS1), Signature Aviation (SIG), and BBA Aviation (BBA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
The Berkeley Group vs.
Taylor Wimpey (LON:TW) and The Berkeley Group (LON:BKG) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Taylor Wimpey received 829 more outperform votes than The Berkeley Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.39% of users gave Taylor Wimpey an outperform vote while only 68.00% of users gave The Berkeley Group an outperform vote.
Taylor Wimpey currently has a consensus price target of GBX 129.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.98%. The Berkeley Group has a consensus price target of GBX 4,624.40, suggesting a potential upside of 15.75%. Given The Berkeley Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe The Berkeley Group is more favorable than Taylor Wimpey.
68.7% of Taylor Wimpey shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.2% of The Berkeley Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Taylor Wimpey shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of The Berkeley Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Taylor Wimpey has higher revenue and earnings than The Berkeley Group. Taylor Wimpey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Berkeley Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Berkeley Group has a net margin of 19.94% compared to Taylor Wimpey's net margin of 14.56%. The Berkeley Group's return on equity of 15.14% beat Taylor Wimpey's return on equity.
In the previous week, Taylor Wimpey and Taylor Wimpey both had 1 articles in the media. The Berkeley Group's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Taylor Wimpey's score of 0.08 indicating that The Berkeley Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Taylor Wimpey pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. The Berkeley Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 91 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Taylor Wimpey pays out 5,000.0% 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 Berkeley Group pays out 2,241.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Taylor Wimpey has a beta of 1.79, suggesting that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Berkeley Group has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
The Berkeley Group beats Taylor Wimpey on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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