PTSG vs. SUR, SFR, KIE, COST, NEXS, KLR, MGNS, MER, COD, and AVON
Should you be buying Premier Technical Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier Technical Services Group include Sureserve Group (SUR), Severfield (SFR), Kier Group (KIE), Costain Group (COST), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), Keller Group (KLR), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Mears Group (MER), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), and Avon Protection (AVON). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Premier Technical Services Group vs.
Sureserve Group (LON:SUR) and Premier Technical Services Group (LON:PTSG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
54.8% of Sureserve Group shares are held by institutional investors. 18.1% of Sureserve Group shares are held 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.
Sureserve Group has a net margin of 3.82% compared to Premier Technical Services Group's net margin of 0.00%. Sureserve Group's return on equity of 19.74% beat Premier Technical Services Group's return on equity.
Premier Technical Services Group received 95 more outperform votes than Sureserve Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.54% of users gave Premier Technical Services Group an outperform vote while only 58.62% of users gave Sureserve Group an outperform vote.
Sureserve Group has higher revenue and earnings than Premier Technical Services Group. Premier Technical Services Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sureserve Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Premier Technical Services Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Sureserve Group's score of -0.45 indicating that Premier Technical Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sureserve Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 120, indicating a potential downside of 3.42%. Given Sureserve Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sureserve Group is more favorable than Premier Technical Services Group.
Summary
Sureserve Group beats Premier Technical Services Group on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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