KNOS vs. SOI, MTW, ATS, CARR, 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), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Carr's Group (CARR), 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.
Schroder Oriental Income (LON:SOI) and Kainos Group (LON:KNOS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
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 3.1%. Schroder Oriental Income pays out 24,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kainos Group pays out 6,923.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
33.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.9% 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kainos Group has a net margin of 12.74% compared to Schroder Oriental Income's net margin of 0.00%. Kainos Group's return on equity of 34.05% beat Schroder Oriental Income's return on equity.
Kainos Group has a consensus price target of GBX 1,200, suggesting a potential upside of 39.05%. Given Kainos Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kainos Group is more favorable than Schroder Oriental Income.
Schroder Oriental Income has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kainos Group has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kainos Group received 121 more outperform votes than Schroder Oriental Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.43% of users gave Kainos Group an outperform vote while only 68.85% of users gave Schroder Oriental Income an outperform vote.
Kainos Group has higher revenue and earnings than Schroder Oriental Income. Kainos Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroder Oriental Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kainos Group had 4 more articles in the media than Schroder Oriental Income. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Kainos Group and 0 mentions for Schroder Oriental Income. Kainos Group's average media sentiment score of 0.15 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 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:KNOS) was last updated on 10/5/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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