EPWN vs. COD, NXR, SUR, SRAD, ECEL, KGP, ALU, NTBR, TON, and HSM
Should you be buying Epwin Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Epwin Group include Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Norcros (NXR), Sureserve Group (SUR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Eurocell (ECEL), Kingspan Group (KGP), The Alumasc Group (ALU), Northern Bear (NTBR), Titon (TON), and Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Epwin Group (LON:EPWN) and Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (LON:COD) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Epwin Group has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
53.0% of Epwin Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.3% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by institutional investors. 37.6% of Epwin Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Epwin Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays an annual dividend of GBX 210 per share and has a dividend yield of 267.6%. Epwin Group pays out 8,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays out 4,015.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Epwin Group received 6 more outperform votes than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.68% of users gave Compagnie de Saint-Gobain an outperform vote while only 70.18% of users gave Epwin Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain had 1 more articles in the media than Epwin Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Compagnie de Saint-Gobain and 1 mentions for Epwin Group. Epwin Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's score of 0.00 indicating that Epwin Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a net margin of 5.57% compared to Epwin Group's net margin of 2.69%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's return on equity of 11.75% beat Epwin Group's return on equity.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has higher revenue and earnings than Epwin Group. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Epwin Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain beats Epwin Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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