FGP vs. GOG, NEX, MCG, ROL, IMI, SPX, HSV, EZJ, COB, and IDS
Should you be buying FirstGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstGroup include The Go-Ahead Group (GOG), National Express Group (NEX), Mobico Group (MCG), Rotala (ROL), IMI (IMI), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), HomeServe (HSV), easyJet (EZJ), Cobham (COB), and International Distributions Services (IDS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
FirstGroup vs. Its Competitors
The Go-Ahead Group (LON:GOG) and FirstGroup (LON:FGP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and risk.
FirstGroup has a consensus price target of GBX 215, suggesting a potential downside of 2.89%. Given The Go-Ahead Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe The Go-Ahead Group is more favorable than FirstGroup.
The Go-Ahead Group has higher revenue and earnings than FirstGroup. FirstGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Go-Ahead Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FirstGroup had 3 more articles in the media than The Go-Ahead Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for FirstGroup and 0 mentions for The Go-Ahead Group. FirstGroup's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat The Go-Ahead Group's score of 0.00 indicating that FirstGroup is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
The Go-Ahead Group has a net margin of 0.00% compared to FirstGroup's net margin of -0.34%. The Go-Ahead Group's return on equity of 0.00% beat FirstGroup's return on equity.
100.1% of FirstGroup shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of FirstGroup shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
FirstGroup beats The Go-Ahead Group on 8 of the 13 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:FGP) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
