HILS vs. MGNS, BBY, KLR, RNWH, KIE, BAB, TPK, HAS, DATA, and PAGE
Should you be buying Hill & Smith stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hill & Smith include Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Balfour Beatty (BBY), Keller Group (KLR), Renew (RNWH), Kier Group (KIE), Babcock International Group (BAB), Travis Perkins (TPK), Hays (HAS), GlobalData (DATA), and PageGroup (PAGE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Morgan Sindall Group (LON:MGNS) and Hill & Smith (LON:HILS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Morgan Sindall Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hill & Smith. Morgan Sindall Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hill & Smith, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Morgan Sindall Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 114 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Hill & Smith pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Morgan Sindall Group pays out 4,560.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hill & Smith pays out 5,058.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Morgan Sindall Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hill & Smith has a consensus target price of GBX 1,903.33, suggesting a potential downside of 0.66%. Given Morgan Sindall Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hill & Smith is more favorable than Morgan Sindall Group.
Morgan Sindall Group has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hill & Smith has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Morgan Sindall Group received 34 more outperform votes than Hill & Smith when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.21% of users gave Morgan Sindall Group an outperform vote while only 70.39% of users gave Hill & Smith an outperform vote.
59.8% of Morgan Sindall Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.5% of Hill & Smith shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Morgan Sindall Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Hill & Smith shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hill & Smith has a net margin of 8.29% compared to Hill & Smith's net margin of 2.86%. Hill & Smith's return on equity of 22.12% beat Morgan Sindall Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Morgan Sindall Group and Morgan Sindall Group both had 1 articles in the media. Hill & Smith's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Morgan Sindall Group's score of 0.03 indicating that Morgan Sindall Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Morgan Sindall Group beats Hill & Smith on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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