PETS vs. PAG, BIG, BOOT, COST, BMPI, POL, AZO, JD, FRAS, and DNLM
Should you be buying Pets at Home Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pets at Home Group include Paragon Banking Group (PAG), Big Technologies (BIG), Henry Boot (BOOT), Costain Group (COST), BMO Managed Portfolio Trust PLC - Income Shares (BMPI), Polo Resources (POL), Azonto Petroleum (AZO), JD Sports Fashion (JD), Frasers Group (FRAS), and Dunelm Group (DNLM).
Pets at Home Group (LON:PETS) and Paragon Banking Group (LON:PAG) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
72.8% of Pets at Home Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Paragon Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Pets at Home Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Paragon Banking Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Paragon Banking Group received 308 more outperform votes than Pets at Home Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.79% of users gave Paragon Banking Group an outperform vote while only 73.42% of users gave Pets at Home Group an outperform vote.
Pets at Home Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Paragon Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 37 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Pets at Home Group pays out 8,125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Paragon Banking Group pays out 5,606.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Paragon Banking Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pets at Home Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 368.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.74%. Given Pets at Home Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pets at Home Group is more favorable than Paragon Banking Group.
Paragon Banking Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pets at Home Group. Paragon Banking Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pets at Home Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pets at Home Group had 2 more articles in the media than Paragon Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Pets at Home Group and 1 mentions for Paragon Banking Group. Paragon Banking Group's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Pets at Home Group's score of 0.20 indicating that Paragon Banking Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Paragon Banking Group has a net margin of 39.13% compared to Pets at Home Group's net margin of 5.71%. Paragon Banking Group's return on equity of 10.88% beat Pets at Home Group's return on equity.
Pets at Home Group has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paragon Banking Group has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Paragon Banking Group beats Pets at Home Group on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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