HSP vs. JAR, SOM, SAG, SFR, BEG, SRAD, NXR, GTLY, DLAR, and CGS
Should you be buying Hargreaves Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hargreaves Services include Jardine Matheson (JAR), Somero Enterprises (SOM), Science Group (SAG), Severfield (SFR), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Norcros (NXR), Gateley (GTLY), De La Rue (DLAR), and Castings (CGS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Hargreaves Services (LON:HSP) and Jardine Matheson (LON:JAR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Hargreaves Services has a net margin of 6.17% compared to Jardine Matheson's net margin of 1.90%. Hargreaves Services' return on equity of 6.34% beat Jardine Matheson's return on equity.
Jardine Matheson has higher revenue and earnings than Hargreaves Services. Jardine Matheson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hargreaves Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hargreaves Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Jardine Matheson pays an annual dividend of GBX 226 per share and has a dividend yield of 361.6%. Hargreaves Services pays out 6,315.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Jardine Matheson pays out 13,294.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Hargreaves Services received 36 more outperform votes than Jardine Matheson when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.75% of users gave Jardine Matheson an outperform vote while only 57.53% of users gave Hargreaves Services an outperform vote.
Hargreaves Services has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jardine Matheson has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
55.7% of Hargreaves Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.7% of Jardine Matheson shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of Hargreaves Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of Jardine Matheson shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hargreaves Services and Hargreaves Services both had 1 articles in the media. Jardine Matheson's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Hargreaves Services' score of 0.00 indicating that Jardine Matheson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Hargreaves Services and Jardine Matheson tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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