GRI vs. ITH, SOPH, HCM, INDV, SLS, ERGO, SLN, AMYT, BMY, and OGN
Should you be buying Grainger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grainger include Ithaca Energy (ITH), Sophos Group plc (SOPH.L) (SOPH), HUTCHMED (HCM), Indivior (INDV), Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (SLS), Ergomed (ERGO), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), Amryt Pharma (AMYT), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), and Origin Enterprises (OGN). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.
Grainger vs. Its Competitors
Grainger (LON:GRI) and Ithaca Energy (LON:ITH) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Grainger received 662 more outperform votes than Ithaca Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.09% of users gave Grainger an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Ithaca Energy an outperform vote.
Ithaca Energy has a net margin of 6.48% compared to Grainger's net margin of -0.40%. Ithaca Energy's return on equity of 4.55% beat Grainger's return on equity.
Grainger presently has a consensus price target of GBX 317.50, suggesting a potential upside of 47.33%. Given Grainger's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Grainger is more favorable than Ithaca Energy.
Grainger pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Ithaca Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.1%. Grainger pays out -4,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ithaca Energy pays out 319.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
85.8% of Grainger shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.7% of Ithaca Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Grainger shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 89.6% of Ithaca Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Grainger had 1 more articles in the media than Ithaca Energy. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Grainger and 8 mentions for Ithaca Energy. Ithaca Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Grainger's score of 0.57 indicating that Ithaca Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ithaca Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Grainger. Grainger is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ithaca Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Grainger beats Ithaca Energy on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:GRI) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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