CHRT vs. AVON, SNR, CHG, ITM, RST, SHI, FNTL, PRV, RCDO, and RWA
Should you be buying Cohort stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cohort include Avon Protection (AVON), Senior (SNR), Chemring Group (CHG), ITM Power (ITM), Restore (RST), SIG (SHI), Fintel (FNTL), Porvair (PRV), Ricardo (RCDO), and Robert Walters (RWA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Avon Protection (LON:AVON) and Cohort (LON:CHRT) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
72.5% of Avon Protection shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of Cohort shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of Avon Protection shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 35.1% of Cohort shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Avon Protection pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Cohort pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Avon Protection pays out -5,348.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cohort pays out 4,242.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Avon Protection is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Avon Protection currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,265, suggesting a potential upside of 7.20%. Given Cohort's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Avon Protection is more favorable than Cohort.
Avon Protection has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cohort has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Avon Protection and Avon Protection both had 4 articles in the media. Avon Protection's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Cohort's score of 0.13 indicating that Cohort is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cohort has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Avon Protection. Avon Protection is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cohort, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cohort has a net margin of 6.65% compared to Cohort's net margin of -5.91%. Avon Protection's return on equity of 14.24% beat Cohort's return on equity.
Avon Protection received 186 more outperform votes than Cohort when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.21% of users gave Cohort an outperform vote while only 75.21% of users gave Avon Protection an outperform vote.
Summary
Cohort beats Avon Protection on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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