COD vs. GEN, FAN, TYMN, JHD, SUR, NXR, SRAD, ECEL, KGP, 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 Genuit Group (GEN), Volution Group (FAN), Tyman (TYMN), James Halstead (JHD), Sureserve Group (SUR), Norcros (NXR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Eurocell (ECEL), Kingspan Group (KGP), and Epwin Group (EPWN). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Genuit Group (LON:GEN) and Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (LON:COD) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain received 161 more outperform votes than Genuit Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.84% of users gave Genuit Group an outperform vote while only 76.68% of users gave Compagnie de Saint-Gobain an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain had 2 more articles in the media than Genuit Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Compagnie de Saint-Gobain and 0 mentions for Genuit Group. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Genuit Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Genuit Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays an annual dividend of GBX 210 per share and has a dividend yield of 263.3%. Genuit Group pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays out 4,015.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has higher revenue and earnings than Genuit Group. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genuit Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Genuit Group has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% 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.
Genuit Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 480, indicating a potential downside of 3.42%. Given Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Genuit Group is more favorable than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain.
Genuit Group has a net margin of 6.56% compared to Genuit Group's net margin of 5.57%. Genuit Group's return on equity of 11.75% beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's return on equity.
84.8% of Genuit Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.3% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Genuit Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain beats Genuit Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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