ICGC vs. CKN, OCN, GPH, FSJ, BMS, MPL, IDS, SIG, BBA, and QQ
Should you be buying Irish Continental Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Irish Continental Group include Clarkson (CKN), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Global Ports (GPH), James Fisher and Sons (FSJ), Braemar (BMS), Mercantile Ports & Logistics (MPL), International Distributions Services (IDS), Signature Aviation (SIG), BBA Aviation (BBA), and QinetiQ Group (QQ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Irish Continental Group vs. Its Competitors
Clarkson (LON:CKN) and Irish Continental Group (LON:ICGC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
53.9% of Clarkson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of Irish Continental Group shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Clarkson shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of Irish Continental Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Clarkson presently has a consensus target price of GBX 4,250, suggesting a potential upside of 28.40%. Given Clarkson's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Clarkson is more favorable than Irish Continental Group.
Clarkson received 158 more outperform votes than Irish Continental Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.58% of users gave Clarkson an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave Irish Continental Group an outperform vote.
Clarkson has a net margin of 13.10% compared to Irish Continental Group's net margin of 10.51%. Irish Continental Group's return on equity of 22.21% beat Clarkson's return on equity.
Clarkson has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Irish Continental Group. Clarkson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Irish Continental Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clarkson has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Irish Continental Group has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Clarkson pays an annual dividend of GBX 104 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Irish Continental Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Clarkson pays out 38.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Irish Continental Group pays out 41.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Clarkson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Clarkson and Clarkson both had 1 articles in the media. Irish Continental Group's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Clarkson's score of 0.00 indicating that Irish Continental Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Clarkson beats Irish Continental Group on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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This page (LON:ICGC) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
