PAC vs. DAL, SQZ, ASC, SHIP, TORO, RYA, PAL, NSH, ALK, and PXS
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), Alkemy Capital Investments (ALK), and Provexis (PXS). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Pacific Assets vs.
Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) and Dalata Hotel Group (LON:DAL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
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 pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Dalata Hotel Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. 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.
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 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.
Dalata Hotel Group has a consensus price target of GBX 480, indicating a potential upside of 1.74%. Given Dalata Hotel Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dalata Hotel Group is more favorable than Pacific Assets.
In the previous week, Dalata Hotel Group had 1 more articles in the media than Pacific Assets. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Dalata Hotel Group and 3 mentions for Pacific Assets. Dalata Hotel Group's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Pacific Assets' score of 0.43 indicating that Dalata Hotel Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dalata Hotel Group received 118 more outperform votes than Pacific Assets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.25% of users gave Dalata Hotel Group an outperform vote while only 70.00% of users gave Pacific Assets an outperform vote.
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, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Dalata Hotel Group beats Pacific Assets on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PAC) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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