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Halfords Group (HFD) Competitors

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GBX 143 -0.80 (-0.56%)
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HFD vs. PETS, MOON, APGN, CARD, FDL, STU, SCS, IGR, MRK, and PROC

Should you be buying Halfords Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Halfords Group include Pets at Home Group (PETS), Moonpig Group (MOON), Applegreen (APGN), Card Factory (CARD), Findel (FDL), Studio Retail Group (STU), ScS Group (SCS), IG Design Group (IGR), Marks Electrical Group (MRK), and ProCook Group (PROC). These companies are all part of the "specialty retail" industry.

Halfords Group vs. Its Competitors

Pets at Home Group (LON:PETS) and Halfords Group (LON:HFD) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.

In the previous week, Halfords Group had 2 more articles in the media than Pets at Home Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Halfords Group and 0 mentions for Pets at Home Group. Halfords Group's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Pets at Home Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Halfords Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pets at Home Group Neutral
Halfords Group Neutral

Pets at Home Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 298.33, suggesting a potential upside of 24.31%. Halfords Group has a consensus price target of GBX 151, suggesting a potential upside of 5.59%. Given Pets at Home Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Pets at Home Group is more favorable than Halfords Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pets at Home Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Halfords Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Pets at Home Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Halfords Group. Pets at Home Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Halfords Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pets at Home Group£1.41B0.78£75.43M£16.4514.59
Halfords Group£1.69B0.18£14.31M£6.6221.60

Pets at Home Group has a net margin of 5.36% compared to Halfords Group's net margin of 0.85%. Pets at Home Group's return on equity of 8.05% beat Halfords Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pets at Home Group5.36% 8.05% 4.66%
Halfords Group 0.85%2.61%2.68%

72.8% of Pets at Home Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Halfords Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Pets at Home Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Halfords Group shares are held by 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.

Pets at Home Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Halfords Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Pets at Home Group pays out 79.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Halfords Group pays out 120.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Pets at Home Group has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Halfords Group has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pets at Home Group beats Halfords Group on 10 of the 18 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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HFD vs. The Competition

MetricHalfords GroupSpecialty Retail IndustryCyclical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£310.35M£3.33B£3.46B£3.01B
Dividend Yield5.68%4.46%3.54%5.02%
P/E Ratio21.6023.7171.80165.92
Price / Sales0.1835.5271.53320,986.79
Price / Cash5.2414.9331.1627.97
Price / Book0.5611.993.764.56
Net Income£14.31M£132.07M£264.31M£5.90B
7 Day Performance-4.67%0.16%-0.46%6.83%
1 Month Performance-16.86%0.84%2.31%13.91%
1 Year Performance-3.12%26,876.24%2,613.59%72.70%

Halfords Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HFD
Halfords Group
1.1996 of 5 stars
GBX 143
-0.6%
GBX 151
+5.6%
-1.2%£310.35M£1.69B21.6012,000
PETS
Pets at Home Group
1.6355 of 5 stars
GBX 241.80
-0.7%
GBX 298.33
+23.4%
-22.8%£1.10B£1.41B14.70210
MOON
Moonpig Group
2.7607 of 5 stars
GBX 211.50
-0.5%
GBX 274.75
+29.9%
+3.8%£719.90M£338.23M21.26730Dividend Announcement
APGN
Applegreen
N/AN/AN/AN/A£598.53MN/A20.5011,145
CARD
Card Factory
4.6385 of 5 stars
GBX 86.60
-1.4%
GBX 185
+113.6%
-14.3%£301.37M£526.96M7.349,075Positive News
FDL
Findel
N/AN/AN/AN/A£201.41M£506.81M8.631,871
STU
Studio Retail Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£100.07M£586.13M4.061,610News Coverage
SCS
ScS Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£91.53M£325.86M2,250.0011,800
IGR
IG Design Group
3.8358 of 5 stars
GBX 76
-0.7%
GBX 270
+255.3%
-62.9%£74.58M£655.48M2.583,092
MRK
Marks Electrical Group
0.8695 of 5 stars
GBX 60.90
-0.2%
GBX 73
+19.9%
-11.4%£63.91M£114.24M149.71200
PROC
ProCook Group
0.6784 of 5 stars
GBX 43.54
-2.2%
GBX 48
+10.2%
+79.2%£47.44M£62.59M77.77578News Coverage
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