COD vs. FAN, TPK, GEN, TYMN, JHD, NXR, SRAD, SUR, ECEL, and EPWN
Should you be buying Compagnie de Saint-Gobain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain include Volution Group (FAN), Travis Perkins (TPK), Genuit Group (GEN), Tyman (TYMN), James Halstead (JHD), Norcros (NXR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Sureserve Group (SUR), Eurocell (ECEL), and Epwin Group (EPWN). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain vs. Its Competitors
Volution Group (LON:FAN) and Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (LON:COD) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
Volution Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays an annual dividend of GBX 210 per share and has a dividend yield of 225.7%. Volution Group pays out 36.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays out 3,645.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
84.6% of Volution Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Volution Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.0% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volution Group has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Volution Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 740, indicating a potential upside of 11.45%. Given Volution Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Volution Group is more favorable than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain.
Volution Group has a net margin of 12.31% compared to Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's net margin of 6.20%. Volution Group's return on equity of 17.78% beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's return on equity.
In the previous week, Volution Group had 3 more articles in the media than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Volution Group and 0 mentions for Compagnie de Saint-Gobain. Volution Group's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's score of 0.00 indicating that Volution Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has higher revenue and earnings than Volution Group. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Volution Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Volution Group beats Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:COD) was last updated on 8/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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