MARS vs. JDW, YNGA, RTN, YNGN, FSTA, LGRS, DPEU, CPC, FUL, and DPP
Should you be buying Marston's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marston's include J D Wetherspoon (JDW), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGA), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGN), Fuller, Smith & Turner (FSTA), Loungers (LGRS), DP Eurasia (DPEU), The City Pub Group (CPC), Fulham Shore (FUL), and DP Poland (DPP). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Marston's vs.
J D Wetherspoon (LON:JDW) and Marston's (LON:MARS) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
J D Wetherspoon has a net margin of 2.40% compared to Marston's' net margin of -1.91%. J D Wetherspoon's return on equity of 12.66% beat Marston's' return on equity.
J D Wetherspoon currently has a consensus target price of GBX 172, indicating a potential downside of 76.19%. Given J D Wetherspoon's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe J D Wetherspoon is more favorable than Marston's.
J D Wetherspoon has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marston's has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.0% of J D Wetherspoon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Marston's shares are held by institutional investors. 31.3% of J D Wetherspoon shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Marston's shares are held by 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.
Marston's received 316 more outperform votes than J D Wetherspoon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.23% of users gave Marston's an outperform vote while only 42.74% of users gave J D Wetherspoon an outperform vote.
J D Wetherspoon pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Marston's pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.7%. J D Wetherspoon pays out 30.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marston's pays out -293.4% 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. Marston's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Marston's had 1 more articles in the media than J D Wetherspoon. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Marston's and 1 mentions for J D Wetherspoon. J D Wetherspoon's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Marston's' score of 0.12 indicating that J D Wetherspoon is being referred to more favorably in the media.
J D Wetherspoon has higher revenue and earnings than Marston's. Marston's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J D Wetherspoon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
J D Wetherspoon beats Marston's on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MARS) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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