PHSC vs. STRL, VCBC, BASK, RGP, AUCT, FHP, BLOC, DERR, HLMA, and CGEO
Should you be buying PHSC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PHSC include Stirling Industries (STRL), Vertu Capital (VCBC), Baskerville Capital (BASK), Ross Group (RGP), Auctus Growth PLC (AUCT.L) (AUCT), Fandango (FHP), Blockchain Worldwide (BLOC), DERN CAPI/PAR VTG FPD 0.025 (DERR), Halma (HLMA), and Georgia Capital (CGEO). These companies are all part of the "conglomerates" industry.
Stirling Industries (LON:STRL) and PHSC (LON:PHSC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
PHSC received 116 more outperform votes than Stirling Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.73% of users gave Stirling Industries an outperform vote while only 53.91% of users gave PHSC an outperform vote.
Stirling Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PHSC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PHSC has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Stirling Industries' net margin of 0.00%. PHSC's return on equity of 7.20% beat Stirling Industries' return on equity.
12.2% of PHSC shares are owned by institutional investors. 49.8% of PHSC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PHSC had 2 more articles in the media than Stirling Industries. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PHSC and 0 mentions for Stirling Industries. PHSC's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Stirling Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that PHSC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PHSC beats Stirling Industries on 11 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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