CRST vs. CRN, MCS, ABBY, GLE, TEF, SPR, WJG, GLV, BTRW, and BDEV
Should you be buying Crest Nicholson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crest Nicholson include Cairn Homes (CRN), McCarthy & Stone (MCS), Abbey (ABBY), MJ Gleeson (GLE), Telford Homes (TEF), Springfield Properties (SPR), Watkin Jones (WJG), Glenveagh Properties (GLV), Barratt Redrow (BTRW), and Barratt Developments (BDEV). These companies are all part of the "residential construction" industry.
Crest Nicholson vs.
Crest Nicholson (LON:CRST) and Cairn Homes (LON:CRN) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Crest Nicholson received 472 more outperform votes than Cairn Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.42% of users gave Cairn Homes an outperform vote while only 68.52% of users gave Crest Nicholson an outperform vote.
97.5% of Crest Nicholson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of Cairn Homes shares are held by institutional investors. 9.5% of Crest Nicholson shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Cairn Homes shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cairn Homes has a net margin of 13.72% compared to Crest Nicholson's net margin of -4.21%. Cairn Homes' return on equity of 14.97% beat Crest Nicholson's return on equity.
Crest Nicholson pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Cairn Homes pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Crest Nicholson pays out -13,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cairn Homes pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Crest Nicholson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Crest Nicholson presently has a consensus target price of GBX 223, indicating a potential upside of 42.49%. Cairn Homes has a consensus target price of GBX 175, indicating a potential downside of 5.20%. Given Crest Nicholson's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Crest Nicholson is more favorable than Cairn Homes.
In the previous week, Cairn Homes had 1 more articles in the media than Crest Nicholson. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Cairn Homes and 1 mentions for Crest Nicholson. Crest Nicholson's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Cairn Homes' score of 0.30 indicating that Crest Nicholson is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Crest Nicholson has a beta of 2, suggesting that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cairn Homes has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cairn Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Crest Nicholson. Crest Nicholson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cairn Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cairn Homes beats Crest Nicholson on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Crest Nicholson News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for CRST and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding {thisCompany.Symbol} and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Crest Nicholson Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
This page (LON:CRST) was last updated on 1/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
