PAC vs. DAL, SQZ, ASC, SHIP, TORO, RYA, PAL, NSH, PXS, and ALK
Should you be buying Pacific Assets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pacific Assets include Dalata Hotel Group (DAL), Serica Energy (SQZ), ASOS (ASC), Tufton Oceanic Assets (SHIP), Chenavari Toro Income Fund (TORO), Ryanair (RYA), Equatorial Palm Oil plc (PAL.L) (PAL), Norish (NSH), Provexis (PXS), and Alkemy Capital Investments (ALK). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Pacific Assets vs. Its Competitors
Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) and Dalata Hotel Group (LON:DAL) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and risk.
Dalata Hotel Group has higher revenue and earnings than Pacific Assets. Pacific Assets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dalata Hotel Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pacific Assets has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dalata Hotel Group has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
43.6% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of Dalata Hotel Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Dalata Hotel Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Pacific Assets has a net margin of 70.84% compared to Dalata Hotel Group's net margin of 13.44%. Pacific Assets' return on equity of 8.79% beat Dalata Hotel Group's return on equity.
Pacific Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Dalata Hotel Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Pacific Assets pays out 11.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dalata Hotel Group pays out 32.1% 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.
Dalata Hotel Group has a consensus target price of GBX 480, indicating a potential downside of 12.73%. Given Dalata Hotel Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dalata Hotel Group is more favorable than Pacific Assets.
In the previous week, Dalata Hotel Group had 6 more articles in the media than Pacific Assets. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Dalata Hotel Group and 1 mentions for Pacific Assets. Dalata Hotel Group's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Pacific Assets' score of 0.11 indicating that Dalata Hotel Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dalata Hotel Group beats Pacific Assets on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:PAC) was last updated on 7/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
