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Kainos Group (KNOS) Competitors

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GBX 749.50 -7.00 (-0.93%)
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KNOS vs. SOI, MTW, CARR, ATS, NVT, VEND, DCI, TRT, SYM, and GRC

Should you be buying Kainos Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kainos Group include Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Mattioli Woods (MTW), Carr's Group (CARR), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Northern Venture Trust (NVT), Ventus VCT D (VEND), DCI Advisors (DCI), Transense Technologies (TRT), Symphony Environmental Technologies (SYM), and GRC International Group (GRC). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.

Kainos Group vs.

Schroder Oriental Income (LON:SOI) and Kainos Group (LON:KNOS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.

In the previous week, Kainos Group had 6 more articles in the media than Schroder Oriental Income. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Kainos Group and 1 mentions for Schroder Oriental Income. Kainos Group's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Schroder Oriental Income's score of -1.00 indicating that Kainos Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Schroder Oriental Income Negative
Kainos Group Neutral

Schroder Oriental Income currently has a consensus target price of GBX 300, suggesting a potential upside of 8.50%. Kainos Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,078.33, suggesting a potential upside of 42.54%. Given Kainos Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kainos Group is more favorable than Schroder Oriental Income.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Schroder Oriental Income
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Kainos Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Schroder Oriental Income has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kainos Group has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Schroder Oriental Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Kainos Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 27 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Schroder Oriental Income pays out 26.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kainos Group pays out 70.8% 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. Schroder Oriental Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Schroder Oriental Income has a net margin of 88.88% compared to Kainos Group's net margin of 12.74%. Kainos Group's return on equity of 33.12% beat Schroder Oriental Income's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Schroder Oriental Income88.88% 16.22% -2.12%
Kainos Group 12.74%33.12%14.45%

33.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of Kainos Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Kainos Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Schroder Oriental Income has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kainos Group. Schroder Oriental Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kainos Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Schroder Oriental Income£119.46M5.38£106.18M£45.666.06
Kainos Group£383.18M2.49£48.81M£38.1619.82

Kainos Group received 128 more outperform votes than Schroder Oriental Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.07% of users gave Kainos Group an outperform vote while only 69.02% of users gave Schroder Oriental Income an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Schroder Oriental IncomeOutperform Votes
127
69.02%
Underperform Votes
57
30.98%
Kainos GroupOutperform Votes
255
73.07%
Underperform Votes
94
26.93%

Summary

Kainos Group beats Schroder Oriental Income on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KNOS vs. The Competition

MetricKainos GroupSoftware IndustryComputer SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£955.54M£5.47B£25.22B£2.68B
Dividend Yield3.56%3.20%2.89%4.96%
P/E Ratio19.8228.8045.09138.25
Price / Sales2.49266.272,227.69211,784.56
Price / Cash20.8316.8034.7828.02
Price / Book6.0810.116.793.80
Net Income£48.81M£63.43M£737.99M£5.88B
7 Day Performance-7.18%-0.06%0.55%7.89%
1 Month Performance7.69%13.24%16.30%29.45%
1 Year Performance-40.43%10.19%52,512.20%121.27%

Kainos Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KNOS
Kainos Group
3.387 of 5 stars
GBX 749.50
-0.9%
GBX 1,078.33
+43.9%
-39.3%£946.70M£383.18M19.642,953Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
SOI
Schroder Oriental Income
0.9859 of 5 stars
GBX 273.90
-0.4%
N/A+1.1%£636.88M£119.46M6.00180Analyst Forecast
MTW
Mattioli Woods
N/AN/AN/AN/A£431.24M£115.40M4,221.054,800
CARR
Carr's Group
N/AGBX 129
-3.7%
N/A+5.1%£125.60M£149.76M-92.5652,000Dividend Increase
Gap Up
ATS
Artemis Alpha Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£120.70M£20.39M683.33N/A
NVT
Northern Venture Trust
N/AGBX 57
flat
N/AN/A£113.16M£5.74M35.7710,400
VEND
Ventus VCT D
N/AN/AN/AN/A£54.14M£8.35M8.4749
DCI
DCI Advisors
N/AGBX 4.70
+4.4%
N/A+2.0%£42.52M£1.71M-470.0014,000Gap Up
High Trading Volume
TRT
Transense Technologies
N/AGBX 126.70
-0.6%
N/A+8.4%£18.87M£4.04M12.20740News Coverage
SYM
Symphony Environmental Technologies
N/AGBX 8.15
-1.2%
N/A+256.6%£18.35M£6.87M-8.481,120Gap Down
High Trading Volume
GRC
GRC International Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£8.36M£14.95M-775.001,150News Coverage

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This page (LON:KNOS) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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