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Franchise Brands (FRAN) Competitors

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GBX 150 +3.00 (+2.04%)
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FRAN vs. JSG, RST, DWF, RWS, DLAR, KEYS, BEG, KGH, SFT, and INSE

Should you be buying Franchise Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franchise Brands include Johnson Service Group (JSG), Restore (RST), DWF Group (DWF), RWS (RWS), De La Rue (DLAR), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Knights Group (KGH), Software Circle (SFT), and Inspired (INSE). These companies are all part of the "specialty business services" industry.

Franchise Brands vs.

Johnson Service Group (LON:JSG) and Franchise Brands (LON:FRAN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Johnson Service Group£495.01M1.20£31.14M£7.5019.11
Franchise Brands£120.55M2.41£7.75M£3.9837.66

Johnson Service Group has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franchise Brands has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Franchise Brands has a net margin of 6.43% compared to Johnson Service Group's net margin of 6.29%. Johnson Service Group's return on equity of 10.95% beat Franchise Brands' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Johnson Service Group6.29% 10.95% 6.40%
Franchise Brands 6.43%3.60%3.24%

In the previous week, Franchise Brands had 8 more articles in the media than Johnson Service Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Franchise Brands and 0 mentions for Johnson Service Group. Franchise Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Johnson Service Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Franchise Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Johnson Service Group Neutral
Franchise Brands Neutral

Johnson Service Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Franchise Brands pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Johnson Service Group pays out 40.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franchise Brands pays out 50.2% 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. Johnson Service Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Johnson Service Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 200, indicating a potential upside of 39.47%. Given Johnson Service Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Johnson Service Group is more favorable than Franchise Brands.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Johnson Service Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Franchise Brands
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Johnson Service Group received 114 more outperform votes than Franchise Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.13% of users gave Johnson Service Group an outperform vote while only 66.12% of users gave Franchise Brands an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Johnson Service GroupOutperform Votes
235
74.13%
Underperform Votes
82
25.87%
Franchise BrandsOutperform Votes
121
66.12%
Underperform Votes
62
33.88%

74.3% of Johnson Service Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.0% of Franchise Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Johnson Service Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 39.0% of Franchise Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Johnson Service Group beats Franchise Brands on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FRAN vs. The Competition

MetricFranchise BrandsSpecialty Business Services IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£289.93M£6.75B£7.66B£2.66B
Dividend Yield1.51%4.93%4.58%5.05%
P/E Ratio37.6631.9523.23129.21
Price / Sales2.41134.5490.51221,406.02
Price / Cash29.0040.5426.9428.02
Price / Book1.347.543.983.79
Net Income£7.75M£144.67M£807.24M£5.88B
7 Day Performance-2.60%0.66%0.78%0.63%
1 Month Performance9.33%56.04%11.12%22.11%
1 Year Performance-21.26%37.38%19.50%120.87%

Franchise Brands Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FRAN
Franchise Brands
N/AGBX 150
+2.0%
N/A-22.0%£289.93M£120.55M37.66715High Trading Volume
JSG
Johnson Service Group
N/AGBX 146
-0.3%
GBX 200
+37.0%
-16.7%£605.82M£495.01M19.466,165Gap Up
RST
Restore
3.4782 of 5 stars
GBX 254.01
-0.8%
GBX 390
+53.5%
-8.2%£341.08M£272.77M89.362,700
DWF
DWF Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£340.61M£451.64M2,490.004,340News Coverage
RWS
RWS
3.5592 of 5 stars
GBX 84
-0.8%
GBX 330
+292.9%
-55.4%£309.80M£707.82M-8.367,040Dividend Increase
Gap Down
DLAR
De La Rue
N/AGBX 128.54
+0.0%
N/A+26.5%£248.86M£307.43M-12.401,841
KEYS
Keystone Law Group
N/AGBX 601
-1.5%
N/A-15.4%£191.83M£94.56M24.3376
BEG
Begbies Traynor Group
N/AGBX 96
-1.2%
GBX 150
+56.3%
-9.9%£152.86M£137.32M104.601,051Dividend Cut
KGH
Knights Group
N/AGBX 163
-1.8%
N/A+7.7%£139.39M£143.94M14.161,353News Coverage
SFT
Software Circle
N/AGBX 29
flat
N/A+65.3%£113.12M£16.16M-2,900.00131News Coverage
INSE
Inspired
N/AGBX 68
-1.4%
N/A-26.6%£108.56M£155.87M62.261,600

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This page (LON:FRAN) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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