CHG vs. SNR, AVON, CHRT, QQ, MGNS, FGP, GEN, REDD, MGAM, and FAN
Should you be buying Chemring Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chemring Group include Senior (SNR), Avon Protection (AVON), Cohort (CHRT), QinetiQ Group (QQ), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), FirstGroup (FGP), Genuit Group (GEN), Redde Northgate (REDD), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), and Volution Group (FAN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Chemring Group (LON:CHG) and Senior (LON:SNR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and profitability.
Chemring Group has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Senior has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Chemring Group had 1 more articles in the media than Senior. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Chemring Group and 4 mentions for Senior. Chemring Group's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Senior's score of -0.39 indicating that Chemring Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Senior received 284 more outperform votes than Chemring Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave Senior an outperform vote while only 61.32% of users gave Chemring Group an outperform vote.
112.9% of Chemring Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.1% of Senior shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Chemring Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Senior shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Senior has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Chemring Group's net margin of 1.14%. Chemring Group's return on equity of 9.47% beat Senior's return on equity.
Chemring Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Senior pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Chemring Group pays out 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Senior pays out 2,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Chemring Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Senior. Senior is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemring Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chemring Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 370, suggesting a potential upside of 7.71%. Given Chemring Group's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Chemring Group is more favorable than Senior.
Summary
Chemring Group beats Senior on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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