KNOS vs. SOI, MTW, CARR, ATS, NVT, VEND, DCI, SYM, TRT, 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), Symphony Environmental Technologies (SYM), Transense Technologies (TRT), and GRC International Group (GRC). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
Kainos Group vs. Its Competitors
Schroder Oriental Income (LON:SOI) and Kainos Group (LON:KNOS) are both small-cap machinery companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation and media sentiment.
Schroder Oriental Income presently has a consensus price target of GBX 300, suggesting a potential downside of 2.28%. Kainos Group has a consensus price target of GBX 1,070, suggesting a potential upside of 48.20%. Given Kainos Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kainos Group is more favorable than Schroder Oriental Income.
Schroder Oriental Income has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kainos Group has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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 3.9%. 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.
33.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of Kainos Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Kainos Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Kainos Group had 3 more articles in the media than Schroder Oriental Income. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Kainos Group and 0 mentions for Schroder Oriental Income. Kainos Group's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Schroder Oriental Income's score of 0.00 indicating that Kainos Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Kainos Group beats Schroder Oriental Income on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:KNOS) was last updated on 8/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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