MPE vs. AEP, CAM, PZC, NICL, W7L, WIL, GNC, CCEP, BAG, and BAKK
Should you be buying M.P. Evans Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M.P. Evans Group include Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Camellia (CAM), PZ Cussons (PZC), Nichols (NICL), Warpaint London (W7L), Wilmington (WIL), Greencore Group (GNC), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), A.G. BARR (BAG), and Bakkavor Group (BAKK). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations (LON:AEP) and M.P. Evans Group (LON:MPE) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
M.P. Evans Group has a net margin of 17.08% compared to M.P. Evans Group's net margin of 10.93%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity of 11.35% beat M.P. Evans Group's return on equity.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M.P. Evans Group has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. M.P. Evans Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 45 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 3,404.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. M.P. Evans Group pays out 5,844.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
M.P. Evans Group received 120 more outperform votes than Anglo-Eastern Plantations when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 83.56% of users gave M.P. Evans Group an outperform vote while only 68.51% of users gave Anglo-Eastern Plantations an outperform vote.
M.P. Evans Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Anglo-Eastern Plantations. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M.P. Evans Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Anglo-Eastern Plantations and Anglo-Eastern Plantations both had 1 articles in the media. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat M.P. Evans Group's score of 0.00 indicating that M.P. Evans Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
10.8% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.9% of M.P. Evans Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 71.9% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 50.9% of M.P. Evans Group shares are owned by 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.
Summary
M.P. Evans Group beats Anglo-Eastern Plantations on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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