JSG vs. RWS, FRAN, RST, CPI, KEYS, BEG, DLAR, MTO, SRP, and CGEO
Should you be buying Johnson Service Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Johnson Service Group include RWS (RWS), Franchise Brands (FRAN), Restore (RST), Capita (CPI), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), De La Rue (DLAR), Mitie Group (MTO), Serco Group (SRP), and Georgia Capital (CGEO). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
RWS (LON:RWS) and Johnson Service Group (LON:JSG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, RWS had 7 more articles in the media than Johnson Service Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for RWS and 0 mentions for Johnson Service Group. Johnson Service Group's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat RWS's score of -0.21 indicating that RWS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
81.7% of RWS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.0% of Johnson Service Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.9% of RWS shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Johnson Service Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
RWS presently has a consensus price target of GBX 300, indicating a potential upside of 75.64%. Johnson Service Group has a consensus price target of GBX 160, indicating a potential upside of 24.22%. Given Johnson Service Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe RWS is more favorable than Johnson Service Group.
Johnson Service Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RWS. RWS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Johnson Service Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Johnson Service Group has a net margin of 5.87% compared to Johnson Service Group's net margin of -3.78%. RWS's return on equity of 9.65% beat Johnson Service Group's return on equity.
RWS pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Johnson Service Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. RWS pays out -17,142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Johnson Service Group pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RWS is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Johnson Service Group received 30 more outperform votes than RWS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.12% of users gave Johnson Service Group an outperform vote while only 71.13% of users gave RWS an outperform vote.
RWS has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Johnson Service Group has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Johnson Service Group beats RWS on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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