QQ vs. CHG, SNR, SRP, BBY, GFTU, WIZZ, DATA, RHIM, MTO, and TPK
Should you be buying QinetiQ Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QinetiQ Group include Chemring Group (CHG), Senior (SNR), Serco Group (SRP), Balfour Beatty (BBY), Grafton Group (GFTU), Wizz Air (WIZZ), GlobalData (DATA), RHI Magnesita (RHIM), Mitie Group (MTO), and Travis Perkins (TPK). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Chemring Group (LON:CHG) and QinetiQ Group (LON:QQ) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Chemring Group received 15 more outperform votes than QinetiQ Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.32% of users gave Chemring Group an outperform vote while only 53.88% of users gave QinetiQ Group an outperform vote.
Chemring Group has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QinetiQ Group has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
QinetiQ Group has a net margin of 6.03% compared to QinetiQ Group's net margin of 1.14%. Chemring Group's return on equity of 10.58% beat QinetiQ Group's return on equity.
QinetiQ Group has higher revenue and earnings than Chemring Group. QinetiQ Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemring Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chemring Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 370, suggesting a potential upside of 1.09%. QinetiQ Group has a consensus target price of GBX 443.40, suggesting a potential upside of 29.95%. Given Chemring Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe QinetiQ Group is more favorable than Chemring Group.
112.9% of Chemring Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.8% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Chemring Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chemring Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. QinetiQ Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Chemring Group pays out 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. QinetiQ Group pays out 4,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. QinetiQ Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, QinetiQ Group had 2 more articles in the media than Chemring Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for QinetiQ Group and 2 mentions for Chemring Group. QinetiQ Group's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Chemring Group's score of 0.30 indicating that Chemring Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
QinetiQ Group beats Chemring Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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