BOOT vs. PETS, COST, ELA, BIG, BMPI, HAST, BILB, HVT, BCAP, and POL
Should you be buying Henry Boot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Henry Boot include Pets at Home Group (PETS), Costain Group (COST), Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), Big Technologies (BIG), BMO Managed Portfolio Trust PLC - Income Shares (BMPI), Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust (HAST), Bilby (BILB), Heavitree Brewery (HVT), Better Capital PCC Limited 2009 (BCAP.L) (BCAP), and Polo Resources (POL). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Henry Boot vs. Its Competitors
Pets at Home Group (LON:PETS) and Henry Boot (LON:BOOT) are both small-cap retail companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and profitability.
72.8% of Pets at Home Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.7% of Henry Boot shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Pets at Home Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 69.5% of Henry Boot shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pets at Home Group has higher revenue and earnings than Henry Boot. Pets at Home Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Henry Boot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pets at Home Group has a net margin of 5.36% compared to Henry Boot's net margin of 3.96%. Pets at Home Group's return on equity of 8.05% beat Henry Boot's return on equity.
Pets at Home Group has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Henry Boot has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pets at Home Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 298.33, indicating a potential upside of 22.87%. Given Pets at Home Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Pets at Home Group is more favorable than Henry Boot.
In the previous week, Henry Boot's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Pets at Home Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Henry Boot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pets at Home Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Henry Boot pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Pets at Home Group pays out 79.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Henry Boot pays out 83.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pets at Home Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Pets at Home Group beats Henry Boot on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:BOOT) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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