CARD vs. CURY, PETS, SMWH, MOON, APGN, HFD, FDL, STU, SCS, and MRK
Should you be buying Card Factory stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Card Factory include Currys (CURY), Pets at Home Group (PETS), WH Smith (SMWH), Moonpig Group (MOON), Applegreen (APGN), Halfords Group (HFD), Findel (FDL), Studio Retail Group (STU), ScS Group (SCS), and Marks Electrical Group (MRK). These companies are all part of the "specialty retail" industry.
Card Factory vs. Its Competitors
Card Factory (LON:CARD) and Currys (LON:CURY) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Card Factory currently has a consensus price target of GBX 148.33, indicating a potential upside of 39.67%. Currys has a consensus price target of GBX 151.67, indicating a potential upside of 11.44%. Given Card Factory's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Card Factory is more favorable than Currys.
Currys has higher revenue and earnings than Card Factory. Card Factory is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Currys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Currys had 47 more articles in the media than Card Factory. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Currys and 1 mentions for Card Factory. Card Factory's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Currys' score of 0.28 indicating that Card Factory is being referred to more favorably in the media.
31.2% of Card Factory shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.1% of Currys shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Card Factory shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Currys 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.
Card Factory has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Currys has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Card Factory has a net margin of 7.79% compared to Currys' net margin of 2.38%. Card Factory's return on equity of 13.00% beat Currys' return on equity.
Summary
Card Factory and Currys tied by winning 8 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
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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This page (LON:CARD) was last updated on 9/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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