BME vs. KGF, AAF, ECM, DPLM, GFS, OCDO, GVC, JET, ITV, and ETO
Should you be buying B&M European Value Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B&M European Value Retail include Kingfisher (KGF), Airtel Africa (AAF), Electrocomponents (ECM), Diploma (DPLM), G4S (GFS), Ocado Group (OCDO), Entain PLC (GVC.L) (GVC), Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET), ITV (ITV), and Entertainment One (ETO). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
B&M European Value Retail vs.
Kingfisher (LON:KGF) and B&M European Value Retail (LON:BME) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Kingfisher pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. B&M European Value Retail pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Kingfisher pays out 5,217.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. B&M European Value Retail pays out 2,564.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
B&M European Value Retail has a net margin of 8.23% compared to Kingfisher's net margin of 3.61%. B&M European Value Retail's return on equity of 47.04% beat Kingfisher's return on equity.
Kingfisher has higher revenue and earnings than B&M European Value Retail. Kingfisher is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than B&M European Value Retail, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.2% of Kingfisher shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.1% of B&M European Value Retail shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Kingfisher shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of B&M European Value Retail shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
B&M European Value Retail received 2 more outperform votes than Kingfisher when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.78% of users gave B&M European Value Retail an outperform vote while only 56.73% of users gave Kingfisher an outperform vote.
Kingfisher has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, B&M European Value Retail has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kingfisher currently has a consensus target price of GBX 256, indicating a potential upside of 9.20%. B&M European Value Retail has a consensus target price of GBX 476.43, indicating a potential upside of 0.96%. Given Kingfisher's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Kingfisher is more favorable than B&M European Value Retail.
In the previous week, Kingfisher had 1 more articles in the media than B&M European Value Retail. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Kingfisher and 5 mentions for B&M European Value Retail. B&M European Value Retail's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Kingfisher's score of 0.05 indicating that B&M European Value Retail is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
B&M European Value Retail beats Kingfisher on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BME and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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