DFS vs. BOY, TRST, MCB, SHG, FIF, IES, RM, SBSI, CFX, and OFG
Should you be buying DFS Furniture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DFS Furniture include Bodycote (BOY), Trustpilot Group (TRST), McBride (MCB), Shanta Gold (SHG), Finsbury Food Group (FIF), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), RM (RM), Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI), Colefax Group (CFX), and Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
DFS Furniture vs. Its Competitors
DFS Furniture (LON:DFS) and Bodycote (LON:BOY) are both small-cap banking companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
DFS Furniture currently has a consensus price target of GBX 220.50, indicating a potential upside of 36.11%. Bodycote has a consensus price target of GBX 811.67, indicating a potential upside of 19.01%. Given DFS Furniture's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe DFS Furniture is more favorable than Bodycote.
In the previous week, Bodycote had 3 more articles in the media than DFS Furniture. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Bodycote and 2 mentions for DFS Furniture. Bodycote's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat DFS Furniture's score of 0.36 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
55.9% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Bodycote shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.0% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Bodycote shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Bodycote has a net margin of 8.01% compared to DFS Furniture's net margin of -0.45%. Bodycote's return on equity of 8.14% beat DFS Furniture's return on equity.
Bodycote has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DFS Furniture. DFS Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bodycote, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DFS Furniture has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bodycote has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bodycote beats DFS Furniture on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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.
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This page (LON:DFS) was last updated on 10/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
