HFD vs. CURY, MOON, APGN, CARD, FDL, IGR, STU, SCS, PODP, and ANG
Should you be buying Halfords Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Halfords Group include Currys (CURY), Moonpig Group (MOON), Applegreen (APGN), Card Factory (CARD), Findel (FDL), IG Design Group (IGR), Studio Retail Group (STU), ScS Group (SCS), Pod Point Group (PODP), and Angling Direct (ANG). These companies are all part of the "specialty retail" industry.
Currys (LON:CURY) and Halfords Group (LON:HFD) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
Currys pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Halfords Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Currys pays out 7,500.0% 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 6,666.7% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Halfords Group has a net margin of 1.99% compared to Halfords Group's net margin of 0.44%. Currys' return on equity of 6.08% beat Halfords Group's return on equity.
Currys received 114 more outperform votes than Halfords Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.78% of users gave Currys an outperform vote while only 66.45% of users gave Halfords Group an outperform vote.
Currys has higher revenue and earnings than Halfords Group. Halfords Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Currys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Currys currently has a consensus price target of GBX 91.80, indicating a potential upside of 11.75%. Halfords Group has a consensus price target of GBX 146, indicating a potential downside of 5.19%. Given Halfords Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Currys is more favorable than Halfords Group.
In the previous week, Currys had 46 more articles in the media than Halfords Group. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for Currys and 1 mentions for Halfords Group. Currys' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Halfords Group's score of 0.27 indicating that Halfords Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Currys has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Halfords Group has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
93.2% of Currys shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Halfords Group shares are held by institutional investors. 18.5% of Currys shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Halfords Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Currys beats Halfords Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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