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Public Policy (PPHC) Competitors

GBX 136.80 +1.30 (+0.96%)
As of 03:08 AM Eastern

PPHC vs. AFM, ELIX, YOU, FNTL, SAG, GTLY, RCDO, MANO, MJH, and SECN

Should you be buying Public Policy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Public Policy include Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), Elixirr International (ELIX), YouGov (YOU), Fintel (FNTL), Science Group (SAG), Gateley (GTLY), Ricardo (RCDO), Manolete Partners (MANO), MJ Hudson Group (MJH), and SEC Newgate (SECN). These companies are all part of the "consulting services" industry.

Public Policy vs.

Public Policy (LON:PPHC) and Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (LON:AFM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.

Public Policy presently has a consensus target price of GBX 260, suggesting a potential upside of 90.06%. Given Public Policy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Public Policy is more favorable than Alpha Financial Markets Consulting.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Public Policy
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Public Policy. Public Policy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Financial Markets Consulting, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Public Policy£190.53M1.08-£28.26M-£15.03-9.10
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting£233.62M0.00£15.85M£0.13N/A

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting received 66 more outperform votes than Public Policy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Public Policy an outperform vote while only 75.53% of users gave Alpha Financial Markets Consulting an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Public PolicyOutperform Votes
5
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
Alpha Financial Markets ConsultingOutperform Votes
71
75.53%
Underperform Votes
23
24.47%

8.0% of Public Policy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.3% of Public Policy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Public Policy pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share. Public Policy pays out -73.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays out 10,769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Public Policy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a net margin of 6.78% compared to Public Policy's net margin of -14.83%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's return on equity of 10.64% beat Public Policy's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Public Policy-14.83% -25.73% -1.69%
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting 6.78%10.64%7.51%

In the previous week, Public Policy's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's score of 0.00 indicating that Public Policy is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Public Policy Positive
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting Neutral

Summary

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting beats Public Policy on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PPHC vs. The Competition

MetricPublic PolicyConsulting Services IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£205.59M£4.72B£7.63B£2.64B
Dividend Yield8.32%3.15%4.58%5.05%
P/E Ratio-9.1095.2223.15134.69
Price / Sales1.08259.7189.73224,245.30
Price / Cash8.7131.8326.9428.03
Price / Book1.902.773.973.80
Net Income-£28.26M£155.55M£807.24M£5.88B
7 Day Performance1.41%2.25%0.12%0.43%
1 Month Performance2.86%11.61%10.57%21.47%
1 Year Performance9.00%-5.60%26.16%129.56%

Public Policy Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PPHC
Public Policy
2.7039 of 5 stars
GBX 136.80
+1.0%
GBX 260
+90.1%
+9.0%£205.59M£190.53M-9.10367Positive News
AFM
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting
N/AN/AN/AN/A£591.19M£233.62M3,876.921,051
ELIX
Elixirr International
N/AGBX 840
-1.2%
N/A+32.8%£405.74M£91.37M23.83484Positive News
Dividend Cut
YOU
YouGov
2.815 of 5 stars
GBX 312.09
-4.3%
GBX 880
+182.0%
-63.8%£365.19M£335.28M-159.051,820
FNTL
Fintel
N/AGBX 270
+1.1%
N/A-10.1%£283.46M£68.89M48.42501Gap Up
SAG
Science Group
2.8174 of 5 stars
GBX 451.25
+0.3%
GBX 758
+68.0%
+2.0%£201.71M£108.81M34.07443News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
GTLY
Gateley
N/AGBX 132
+0.8%
N/A+7.1%£176.25M£176.99M17.051,068
RCDO
Ricardo
N/AGBX 271
-0.7%
GBX 730
+169.4%
-43.5%£166.94M£469.99M238.642,978News Coverage
MANO
Manolete Partners
N/AGBX 86
-2.8%
N/A-36.8%£35.05M£22.40M0.8129
MJH
MJ Hudson Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£26.69M£47.45M-437.50232
SECN
SEC Newgate
N/AN/AN/AN/A£25.24M£70.13M33.64580High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:PPHC) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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