KIE vs. PTSG, SUR, KLR, SFR, COST, MGNS, HILS, LSC, RCDO, and HYVE
Should you be buying Kier Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kier Group include Premier Technical Services Group (PTSG), Sureserve Group (SUR), Keller Group (KLR), Severfield (SFR), Costain Group (COST), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Hill & Smith (HILS), London Security (LSC), Ricardo (RCDO), and Hyve Group (HYVE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Kier Group vs.
Kier Group (LON:KIE) and Premier Technical Services Group (LON:PTSG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Kier Group has higher revenue and earnings than Premier Technical Services Group. Premier Technical Services Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kier Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kier Group had 4 more articles in the media than Premier Technical Services Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Kier Group and 0 mentions for Premier Technical Services Group. Kier Group's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Premier Technical Services Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Kier Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kier Group has a net margin of 0.74% compared to Premier Technical Services Group's net margin of 0.00%. Kier Group's return on equity of 4.66% beat Premier Technical Services Group's return on equity.
88.0% of Kier Group shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Kier Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kier Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 150, indicating a potential upside of 93.55%. Given Kier Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kier Group is more favorable than Premier Technical Services Group.
Kier Group received 433 more outperform votes than Premier Technical Services Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.21% of users gave Kier Group an outperform vote while only 67.54% of users gave Premier Technical Services Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Kier Group beats Premier Technical Services Group on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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