MRL vs. LSC, OCN, GDWN, TFW, RWI, JSG, CGEO, STEM, KIE, and VLX
Should you be buying Marlowe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marlowe include London Security (LSC), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Goodwin (GDWN), FW Thorpe (TFW), Renewi (RWI), Johnson Service Group (JSG), Georgia Capital (CGEO), SThree (STEM), Kier Group (KIE), and Volex (VLX). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Marlowe (LON:MRL) and London Security (LON:LSC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Marlowe received 89 more outperform votes than London Security when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.11% of users gave Marlowe an outperform vote while only 70.91% of users gave London Security an outperform vote.
59.0% of Marlowe shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.6% of Marlowe shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 99.0% of London Security shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Marlowe has a beta of 0.43, meaning that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, London Security has a beta of 0.22, meaning that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
London Security has a net margin of 10.41% compared to Marlowe's net margin of -2.85%. London Security's return on equity of 14.80% beat Marlowe's return on equity.
In the previous week, London Security had 2 more articles in the media than Marlowe. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for London Security and 0 mentions for Marlowe. Marlowe's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat London Security's score of -0.13 indicating that Marlowe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
London Security has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Marlowe. Marlowe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than London Security, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
London Security beats Marlowe on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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