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Diploma (DPLM) Competitors

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GBX 5,245 -15.00 (-0.29%)
As of 07/25/2025 12:39 PM Eastern

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

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

Diploma vs. Its Competitors

Kerry Group (LON:KYGA) and Diploma (LON:DPLM) are both personal services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk and media sentiment.

Diploma has a consensus target price of GBX 5,092.50, indicating a potential downside of 2.91%. Given Diploma's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Diploma is more favorable than Kerry Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Kerry Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Diploma
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Kerry Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 119 per share and has a dividend yield of 132.9%. Diploma pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. 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. Diploma pays out 65.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Kerry Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diploma has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Diploma has a net margin of 9.25% compared to Kerry Group's net margin of 8.50%. Diploma's return on equity of 13.18% beat Kerry Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kerry Group8.50% 10.15% 4.77%
Diploma 9.25%13.18%8.32%

41.3% of Kerry Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.5% of Diploma shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.7% of Kerry Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Diploma shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Diploma had 2 more articles in the media than Kerry Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Diploma and 1 mentions for Kerry Group. Diploma's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Kerry Group's score of 0.59 indicating that Diploma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Kerry Group
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Diploma
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Kerry Group has higher revenue and earnings than Diploma. Kerry 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
Kerry Group£736.58B0.02£62.65B£3.7823.68
Diploma£1.25B5.60£115.40M£87.0060.29

Summary

Diploma beats Kerry Group on 14 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

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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DPLM vs. The Competition

MetricDiplomaIndustrial Distribution IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.00B£4.55B£7.88B£3.02B
Dividend Yield1.25%4.76%4.55%5.02%
P/E Ratio60.2917.9825.58160.65
Price / Sales5.6060.49101.45278,114.42
Price / Cash87.8260.3627.9227.97
Price / Book7.872.054.464.70
Net Income£115.40M£222.68M£795.63M£5.90B
7 Day Performance0.87%0.43%1.41%0.36%
1 Month Performance7.57%3.53%5.67%7.05%
1 Year Performance20.41%1.27%32.01%73.19%

Diploma Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DPLM
Diploma
1.0271 of 5 stars
GBX 5,245
-0.3%
GBX 5,092.50
-2.9%
+24.2%£7.00B£1.25B60.293,500Dividend Increase
KYGA
Kerry Group
N/AGBX 89.55
-0.3%
N/A+11.9%£14.85B£736.58B23.6921,000News Coverage
Positive News
HWDN
Howden Joinery Group
1.7076 of 5 stars
GBX 826
-0.5%
GBX 963
+16.6%
+0.1%£4.51B£2.34B17.7112,000News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
DPH
Dechra Pharmaceuticals
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.40B£761.50M-15,464.002,457
IGG
IG Group
3.1551 of 5 stars
GBX 1,062.60
-0.4%
GBX 1,466
+38.0%
+30.0%£3.77B£913.00M7.092,754News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
CTY
City of London
N/AGBX 497
-0.2%
N/A+15.8%£2.46B£307.08M8.37N/ADividend Announcement
GNS
Genus
0.6237 of 5 stars
GBX 2,394.18
-0.7%
GBX 2,650
+10.7%
+41.9%£1.57B£666.67M198.46480News Coverage
SMWH
WH Smith
2.5384 of 5 stars
GBX 1,074
+0.7%
GBX 1,430
+33.1%
-14.7%£1.38B£1.83B22.1614,935Dividend Increase
CAR
Carclo
N/AGBX 45.34
+0.8%
N/A+38.3%£33.29M£132.66M-10.091,059Gap Up
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 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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