MOTR vs. LOOK, MMH, PINE, VTU, CAMB, CFYN, INCH, PDG, JPJ, and BOWL
Should you be buying Motorpoint Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Motorpoint Group include Lookers (LOOK), Marshall Motor (MMH), Pinewood Technologies Group (PINE), Vertu Motors (VTU), Cambria Automobiles (CAMB), Caffyns (CFYN), Inchcape (INCH), Pendragon (PDG), JPJ Group (JPJ), and Hollywood Bowl Group (BOWL). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Lookers (LON:LOOK) and Motorpoint Group (LON:MOTR) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Lookers has a net margin of 1.43% compared to Motorpoint Group's net margin of -0.77%. Lookers' return on equity of 14.90% beat Motorpoint Group's return on equity.
Lookers has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Motorpoint Group has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lookers had 2 more articles in the media than Motorpoint Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Lookers and 2 mentions for Motorpoint Group. Lookers' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Motorpoint Group's score of -0.07 indicating that Lookers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lookers pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Motorpoint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Lookers pays out 1,875.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Motorpoint Group pays out -5,555.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Motorpoint Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
68.3% of Lookers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.8% of Motorpoint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Lookers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of Motorpoint Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lookers received 416 more outperform votes than Motorpoint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 86.02% of users gave Lookers an outperform vote while only 64.38% of users gave Motorpoint Group an outperform vote.
Lookers has higher revenue and earnings than Motorpoint Group. Motorpoint Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lookers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lookers beats Motorpoint Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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