PHSC vs. CMH, AQSG, SLNG, SNT, IGE, XSG, LIFS, EQT, PEG, and CEPS
Should you be buying PHSC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PHSC include Chamberlin (CMH), Aquila Services Group (AQSG), H C Slingsby (SLNG), Sabien Technology Group (SNT), Image Scan (IGE), Xeros Technology Group (XSG), LifeSafe (LIFS), EQTEC (EQT), Petards Group (PEG), and Ceps (CEPS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
PHSC (LON:PHSC) and Chamberlin (LON:CMH) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
PHSC has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chamberlin has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PHSC and PHSC both had 1 articles in the media. PHSC's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Chamberlin's score of 0.00 indicating that PHSC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PHSC has a net margin of 7.60% compared to Chamberlin's net margin of 0.98%. PHSC's return on equity of 7.23% beat Chamberlin's return on equity.
12.2% of PHSC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Chamberlin shares are held by institutional investors. 56.3% of PHSC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.9% of Chamberlin shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PHSC received 59 more outperform votes than Chamberlin when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.66% of users gave Chamberlin an outperform vote while only 53.91% of users gave PHSC an outperform vote.
Summary
PHSC beats Chamberlin on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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