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Diploma (DPLM) Competitors

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GBX 5,305 -25.00 (-0.47%)
As of 10/17/2025 11:54 AM Eastern

DPLM vs. HWDN, DPH, IGG, CTY, GNS, SMWH, KYGA, CAR, PRP, and AUK

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

Diploma vs. Its Competitors

Howden Joinery Group (LON:HWDN) and Diploma (LON:DPLM) are both mid-cap personal services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.

Howden Joinery Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 919.67, suggesting a potential upside of 14.32%. Diploma has a consensus target price of GBX 5,365, suggesting a potential upside of 1.13%. Given Howden Joinery Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Howden Joinery Group is more favorable than Diploma.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Howden Joinery Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Diploma
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Howden Joinery Group has a net margin of 10.82% compared to Diploma's net margin of 9.25%. Howden Joinery Group's return on equity of 25.70% beat Diploma's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Howden Joinery Group10.82% 25.70% 10.70%
Diploma 9.25%13.18%8.32%

67.4% of Howden Joinery Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of Diploma shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Howden Joinery Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Diploma shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Howden Joinery Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Diploma pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Howden Joinery Group pays out 45.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diploma pays out 47.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Howden Joinery Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Howden Joinery Group£2.35B1.85£253.42M£0.461,737.58
Diploma£1.45B4.89£115.40M£1.244,267.90

In the previous week, Howden Joinery Group had 2 more articles in the media than Diploma. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Howden Joinery Group and 1 mentions for Diploma. Howden Joinery Group's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Diploma's score of 0.00 indicating that Howden Joinery Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Howden Joinery Group
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Diploma
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Howden Joinery Group has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diploma has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Howden Joinery Group beats Diploma on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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DPLM vs. The Competition

MetricDiplomaIndustrial Distribution IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.11B£4.33B£7.84B£2.57B
Dividend Yield1.13%4.56%4.59%5.37%
P/E Ratio4,267.90494.30280.664,242.54
Price / Sales4.8955.601,253.1599,406.89
Price / Cash87.8260.3627.7427.90
Price / Book7.962.074.798.11
Net Income£115.40M£222.68M£790.12M£5.89B
7 Day Performance-0.75%-0.24%0.11%-0.62%
1 Month Performance-2.66%0.35%1.44%0.88%
1 Year Performance21.62%0.00%26.53%126.01%

Diploma Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DPLM
Diploma
0.7223 of 5 stars
GBX 5,305
-0.5%
GBX 5,365
+1.1%
+21.8%£7.11B£1.45B4,267.903,500Dividend Increase
HWDN
Howden Joinery Group
2.3732 of 5 stars
GBX 817.50
+0.2%
GBX 919.67
+12.5%
-11.4%£4.43B£2.35B1,765.6612,000
DPH
Dechra Pharmaceuticals
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.40B£761.50M-15,464.002,457
IGG
IG Group
3.9065 of 5 stars
GBX 1,082
+0.2%
GBX 1,470.67
+35.9%
+12.1%£3.74B£949.10M1,029.502,754Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CTY
City of London
N/AGBX 509
flat
N/A+15.1%£2.54B£344.24M734.38N/ADividend Announcement
High Trading Volume
GNS
Genus
1.2153 of 5 stars
GBX 2,655.21
+0.2%
GBX 2,900
+9.2%
+29.8%£1.76B£672.80M9,187.58480
SMWH
WH Smith
2.569 of 5 stars
GBX 643.50
-0.1%
GBX 998.20
+55.1%
-53.6%£801.54M£1.94B14,300.0014,935Dividend Increase
Gap Down
KYGA
Kerry Group
N/AGBX 75.29
+0.1%
N/A-17.8%£122.24M£6.97B17.1421,000High Trading Volume
CAR
Carclo
N/AGBX 69.60
+1.8%
N/A+97.9%£51.10M£121.22M5,800.001,059
PRP
Prime People
N/AN/AN/AN/A£8.15M£19.72M10.9813,100Gap Down
AUK
Aukett Swanke Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£5.46M£23.61M-6.3232,200Gap Down

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This page (LON:DPLM) was last updated on 10/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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