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Compass Group (CPG) Competitors

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GBX 2,502 -16.00 (-0.64%)
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CPG vs. KYGA, DPLM, DPH, HWDN, IGG, CTY, SMWH, GNS, CAR, and PRP

Should you be buying Compass Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compass Group include Kerry Group (KYGA), Diploma (DPLM), Dechra Pharmaceuticals (DPH), Howden Joinery Group (HWDN), IG Group (IGG), City of London (CTY), WH Smith (SMWH), Genus (GNS), Carclo (CAR), and Prime People (PRP). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.

Compass Group vs.

Compass Group (LON:CPG) and Kerry Group (LON:KYGA) are both large-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.

76.3% of Compass Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Kerry Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Compass Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of Kerry Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Compass Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,692, suggesting a potential upside of 7.59%. Given Compass Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Compass Group is more favorable than Kerry Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Compass Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Kerry Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Compass Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Kerry Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 119 per share and has a dividend yield of 127.2%. Compass Group pays out 55.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kerry Group pays out 3,147.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Compass Group has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kerry Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Kerry Group had 3 more articles in the media than Compass Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Kerry Group and 0 mentions for Compass Group. Kerry Group's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Compass Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Kerry Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Compass Group Neutral
Kerry Group Positive

Compass Group received 391 more outperform votes than Kerry Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.60% of users gave Kerry Group an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Compass Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Compass GroupOutperform Votes
557
60.09%
Underperform Votes
370
39.91%
Kerry GroupOutperform Votes
166
63.60%
Underperform Votes
95
36.40%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Compass Group£31.57B1.34£1.35B£79.5231.46
Kerry Group£736.58B0.02£62.65B£3.7824.74

Kerry Group has a net margin of 8.50% compared to Compass Group's net margin of 4.27%. Compass Group's return on equity of 22.69% beat Kerry Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Compass Group4.27% 22.69% 7.52%
Kerry Group 8.50%10.15%4.77%

Summary

Compass Group beats Kerry Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CPG vs. The Competition

MetricCompass GroupRestaurants IndustryCyclical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£42.44B£2.87B£3.21B£2.56B
Dividend Yield1.96%4.96%3.49%4.97%
P/E Ratio31.4615.7620.54132.50
Price / Sales1.3453.0364.35227,865.49
Price / Cash16.8443.1830.9428.11
Price / Book6.192.073.424.51
Net Income£1.35B£96.75M£262.00M£5.84B
7 Day Performance0.36%1.62%1.97%3.31%
1 Month Performance-2.83%1.77%1.01%9.43%
1 Year Performance13.62%-11.38%1,675.04%114.47%

Compass Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CPG
Compass Group
1.1368 of 5 stars
GBX 2,502
-0.6%
GBX 2,692
+7.6%
+12.6%£42.44B£31.57B31.46550,000Dividend Increase
KYGA
Kerry Group
N/AGBX 93.18
-0.2%
N/A+15.1%£15.45B£736.58B24.6521,000News Coverage
DPLM
Diploma
1.1339 of 5 stars
GBX 3,846
+0.6%
GBX 4,567.50
+18.8%
+9.2%£5.13B£1.25B44.213,500Dividend Increase
News Coverage
DPH
Dechra Pharmaceuticals
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.40B£761.50M-15,464.002,457
HWDN
Howden Joinery Group
2.5195 of 5 stars
GBX 723.50
+0.6%
GBX 981
+35.6%
-12.4%£3.95B£2.34B15.5112,000Positive News
Gap Up
IGG
IG Group
1.4826 of 5 stars
GBX 1,031
+0.3%
GBX 1,082.50
+5.0%
+42.4%£3.66B£913.00M6.882,754News Coverage
CTY
City of London
N/AGBX 460.50
+0.7%
N/A+12.7%£2.28B£307.08M7.75N/ADividend Announcement
SMWH
WH Smith
2.7137 of 5 stars
GBX 931
-1.1%
GBX 1,456.67
+56.5%
-17.5%£1.20B£1.83B19.2114,935Dividend Increase
GNS
Genus
1.3174 of 5 stars
GBX 1,618
-1.5%
GBX 2,150
+32.9%
+2.1%£1.06B£666.67M134.12480Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
CAR
Carclo
N/AGBX 23.60
-1.9%
N/A+165.4%£17.33M£132.66M-5.251,059
PRP
Prime People
N/AN/AN/AN/A£8.15M£19.72M10.9813,100Gap Down

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This page (LON:CPG) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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