ICGC vs. OCN, CKN, TYMN, RNWH, WIN, SNR, KLR, RWS, JHD, and FAN
Should you be buying Irish Continental Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Irish Continental Group include Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Clarkson (CKN), Tyman (TYMN), Renew (RNWH), Wincanton (WIN), Senior (SNR), Keller Group (KLR), RWS (RWS), James Halstead (JHD), and Volution Group (FAN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Irish Continental Group (LON:ICGC) and Ocean Wilsons (LON:OCN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Ocean Wilsons has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Irish Continental Group. Ocean Wilsons 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.
40.0% of Irish Continental Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.6% of Ocean Wilsons shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.5% of Irish Continental Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.6% of Ocean Wilsons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ocean Wilsons received 109 more outperform votes than Irish Continental Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.69% of users gave Ocean Wilsons an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave Irish Continental Group an outperform vote.
Ocean Wilsons has a net margin of 13.78% compared to Irish Continental Group's net margin of 10.77%. Irish Continental Group's return on equity of 22.68% beat Ocean Wilsons' return on equity.
In the previous week, Irish Continental Group had 2 more articles in the media than Ocean Wilsons. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Irish Continental Group and 2 mentions for Ocean Wilsons. Irish Continental Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ocean Wilsons'average media sentiment score.
Irish Continental Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ocean Wilsons pays an annual dividend of GBX 67 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Irish Continental Group pays out 4,193.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ocean Wilsons pays out 4,437.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Irish Continental Group has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ocean Wilsons has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Irish Continental Group beats Ocean Wilsons on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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