FGP vs. MCG, MGNS, GEN, GEC, CHG, CKN, SMS, BOY, REDD, and MGAM
Should you be buying FirstGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstGroup include Mobico Group (MCG), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Genuit Group (GEN), General Electric (GEC), Chemring Group (CHG), Clarkson (CKN), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Bodycote (BOY), Redde Northgate (REDD), and Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
FirstGroup (LON:FGP) and Mobico Group (LON:MCG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
FirstGroup has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mobico Group has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.2% of FirstGroup shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of Mobico Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of FirstGroup shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.3% of Mobico Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
FirstGroup currently has a consensus target price of GBX 162.67, indicating a potential downside of 1.95%. Given FirstGroup's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FirstGroup is more favorable than Mobico Group.
FirstGroup pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Mobico Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. FirstGroup pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mobico Group pays out -625.0% 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.
FirstGroup received 593 more outperform votes than Mobico Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Mobico Group had 8 more articles in the media than FirstGroup. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Mobico Group and 2 mentions for FirstGroup. FirstGroup's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Mobico Group's score of 0.07 indicating that FirstGroup is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FirstGroup has a net margin of 0.69% compared to Mobico Group's net margin of -9.00%. FirstGroup's return on equity of 0.50% beat Mobico Group's return on equity.
FirstGroup has higher revenue and earnings than Mobico Group. FirstGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mobico Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
FirstGroup beats Mobico Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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