KNOS vs. SOI, MTW, CARR, ATS, NVT, VEND, DCI, TRT, GRC, and SYM
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), GRC International Group (GRC), and Symphony Environmental Technologies (SYM). 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 business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
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.
Kainos Group has a consensus price target of GBX 1,052.50, indicating a potential upside of 44.47%. Given Kainos Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kainos Group is more favorable than Schroder Oriental Income.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Kainos Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Kainos Group received 127 more outperform votes than Schroder Oriental Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.91% of users gave Kainos Group an outperform vote while only 68.85% of users gave Schroder Oriental Income an outperform vote.
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.
Schroder Oriental Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Kainos Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 27 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. 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.
In the previous week, Kainos Group had 1 more articles in the media than Schroder Oriental Income. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Kainos Group and 0 mentions for Schroder Oriental Income. Kainos Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Schroder Oriental Income's score of 0.00 indicating that Kainos Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Schroder Oriental Income has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kainos Group has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Kainos Group beats Schroder Oriental Income on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:KNOS) was last updated on 4/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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