CARR vs. MTW, ATS, NVT, VEND, DCI, TRT, GRC, SYM, AVS, and CVR
Should you be buying Carr's Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carr's Group include Mattioli Woods (MTW), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Northern Venture Trust (NVT), Ventus VCT D (VEND), DCI Advisors (DCI), Transense Technologies (TRT), GRC International Group (GRC), Symphony Environmental Technologies (SYM), Avesco Group (AVS), and Conviviality Plc, (CVR). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
Mattioli Woods (LON:MTW) and Carr's Group (LON:CARR) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Mattioli Woods received 62 more outperform votes than Carr's Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.16% of users gave Mattioli Woods an outperform vote while only 61.99% of users gave Carr's Group an outperform vote.
Mattioli Woods currently has a consensus price target of GBX 872.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.79%. Given Mattioli Woods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Mattioli Woods is more favorable than Carr's Group.
Mattioli Woods has a net margin of 8.59% compared to Carr's Group's net margin of -1.12%. Mattioli Woods' return on equity of 4.38% beat Carr's Group's return on equity.
55.3% of Mattioli Woods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.9% of Carr's Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of Mattioli Woods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.6% of Carr's Group shares are owned by company 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.
Mattioli Woods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carr's Group. Carr's Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mattioli Woods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mattioli Woods has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carr's Group has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Carr's Group had 29 more articles in the media than Mattioli Woods. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Carr's Group and 0 mentions for Mattioli Woods. Mattioli Woods' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Carr's Group's score of -0.01 indicating that Mattioli Woods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mattioli Woods pays an annual dividend of GBX 27 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Carr's Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Mattioli Woods pays out 14,210.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Carr's Group pays out -80,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carr's Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Mattioli Woods beats Carr's Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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