SFR vs. COST, GFRD, CTO, BILN, KIE, RNWH, KLR, BRCK, KEYS, and CPI
Should you be buying Severfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Severfield include Costain Group (COST), Galliford Try (GFRD), TClarke (CTO), Billington (BILN), Kier Group (KIE), Renew (RNWH), Keller Group (KLR), Brickability Group (BRCK), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), and Capita (CPI). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Severfield (LON:SFR) and Costain Group (LON:COST) 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, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
68.9% of Severfield shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.2% of Costain Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Severfield shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.4% of Costain Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Severfield pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Costain Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Severfield pays out 5,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Costain Group pays out 1,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Costain Group received 237 more outperform votes than Severfield when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.18% of users gave Costain Group an outperform vote while only 76.09% of users gave Severfield an outperform vote.
Severfield has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Costain Group has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its share price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Severfield has a net margin of 4.54% compared to Costain Group's net margin of 1.66%. Costain Group's return on equity of 10.27% beat Severfield's return on equity.
In the previous week, Costain Group had 1 more articles in the media than Severfield. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Costain Group and 1 mentions for Severfield. Severfield's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Costain Group's score of 0.35 indicating that Severfield is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Costain Group has higher revenue and earnings than Severfield. Severfield is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Costain Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Costain Group beats Severfield on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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