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Colefax Group (CFX) Competitors

GBX 824 +19.00 (+2.36%)
As of 08/1/2025 11:39 AM Eastern

CFX vs. SHG, FIF, IES, RM, SBSI, OFG, FCAP, OBT, PFC, and TRIN

Should you be buying Colefax Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Colefax Group include Shanta Gold (SHG), Finsbury Food Group (FIF), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), RM (RM), Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI), Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG), Cavendish Financial (FCAP), Obtala (OBT), Petrofac (PFC), and Trinity Exploration & Production (TRIN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Colefax Group vs. Its Competitors

Shanta Gold (LON:SHG) and Colefax Group (LON:CFX) are both small-cap banking companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and valuation.

Shanta Gold has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Colefax Group has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Shanta Gold pays an annual dividend of GBX 0 per share. Colefax Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Shanta Gold pays out 25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Colefax Group pays out 6.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Colefax Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Shanta Gold has a net margin of 8.96% compared to Colefax Group's net margin of 5.41%. Colefax Group's return on equity of 18.88% beat Shanta Gold's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Shanta Gold8.96% 8.47% 7.61%
Colefax Group 5.41%18.88%6.87%

Colefax Group has a consensus price target of GBX 870, indicating a potential upside of 5.58%. Given Colefax Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Colefax Group is more favorable than Shanta Gold.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Shanta Gold
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Colefax Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Shanta Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Colefax Group. Shanta Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Colefax Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Shanta Gold£150.50M0.00£13.48M£0.01N/A
Colefax Group£101.60M0.48£5.49M£93.798.79

In the previous week, Colefax Group had 3 more articles in the media than Shanta Gold. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Colefax Group and 0 mentions for Shanta Gold. Colefax Group's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Shanta Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Colefax Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Shanta Gold Neutral
Colefax Group Neutral

80.4% of Shanta Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Colefax Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.2% of Shanta Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 36.5% of Colefax Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Colefax Group beats Shanta Gold on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CFX vs. The Competition

MetricColefax GroupFurnishings, Fixtures & Appliances IndustryCyclical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£48.26M£624.23M£3.39B£3.03B
Dividend Yield0.68%3.38%3.55%5.02%
P/E Ratio8.799.7668.62176.75
Price / Sales0.4841.0070.05264,362.45
Price / Cash2.3511.5431.1627.97
Price / Book1.601.343.704.53
Net Income£5.49M£12.18M£264.31M£5.90B
7 Day Performance9.62%-4.63%-2.07%12.58%
1 Month Performance5.91%-4.35%-0.29%6.10%
1 Year Performance-3.51%-18.79%1,793.66%71.60%

Colefax Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CFX
Colefax Group
1.2533 of 5 stars
GBX 824
+2.4%
GBX 870
+5.6%
-3.5%£48.26M£101.60M8.7955,900News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
SHG
Shanta Gold
N/AN/AN/AN/A£154.98M£150.50M1,476.00190High Trading Volume
FIF
Finsbury Food Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£143.42M£413.74M1,375.00206
IES
Invinity Energy Systems
2.829 of 5 stars
GBX 25.50
+3.0%
GBX 40
+56.9%
-3.1%£111.53M£15.88M-2.94140News Coverage
RM
RM
N/AGBX 105
+2.9%
N/A+24.1%£88.69M£189.50M-1.911,990High Trading Volume
SBSI
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust
N/AGBX 75.64
+1.5%
N/A-17.9%£62.30M£2.21M60.14810News Coverage
Gap Down
OFG
Octopus Future Generations VCT
N/AGBX 84.50
flat
N/AN/A£34.75MN/A0.002,250High Trading Volume
FCAP
Cavendish Financial
N/AN/AN/AN/A£28.61M£32.15M-263.33220Gap Down
OBT
Obtala
N/AN/AN/AN/A£28.50M£14.89M-1.86210Gap Down
PFC
Petrofac
N/AN/AN/AN/A£26.88M£3.30B-0.058,600Gap Up
TRIN
Trinity Exploration & Production
N/AN/AN/AN/A£26.38M£69.83M-523.0840

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This page (LON:CFX) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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