HERC vs. KINO, RAI, TGP, NEXS, VANL, SMJ, BILN, BMT, HARL, and EAAS
Should you be buying Hercules Site Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hercules Site Services include Kinovo (KINO), RA International Group (RAI), Tekmar Group (TGP), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), Van Elle (VANL), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Billington (BILN), Braime Group (BMT), Harland & Wolff Group (HARL), and eEnergy Group (EAAS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Hercules Site Services (LON:HERC) and Kinovo (LON:KINO) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Kinovo has a consensus price target of GBX 63.50, suggesting a potential upside of 51.19%. Given Kinovo's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kinovo is more favorable than Hercules Site Services.
In the previous week, Hercules Site Services had 1 more articles in the media than Kinovo. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Hercules Site Services and 0 mentions for Kinovo. Hercules Site Services' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Kinovo'saverage media sentiment score.
Kinovo received 6 more outperform votes than Hercules Site Services when rated by MarketBeat users.
Kinovo has a net margin of 5.01% compared to Hercules Site Services' net margin of 0.91%. Kinovo's return on equity of 61.90% beat Hercules Site Services' return on equity.
Hercules Site Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Kinovo pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Hercules Site Services pays out 20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinovo pays out 1,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Kinovo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hercules Site Services. Kinovo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hercules Site Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hercules Site Services has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinovo has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
11.9% of Hercules Site Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of Kinovo shares are owned by institutional investors. 78.0% of Hercules Site Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 64.3% of Kinovo shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Kinovo beats Hercules Site Services on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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