SHC vs. TALK, AMS, SSY, AGL, FME, BNR, CON, AMED, SHB, and HMSO
Should you be buying Shaftesbury Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shaftesbury Capital include TalkTalk Telecom Group (TALK), Advanced Medical Solutions Group (AMS), Scisys Group (SSY), ANGLE (AGL), Future Metals (FME), Burning Rock Biotech (BNR), Connemara Mining (CON), Amedeo Resources (AMED), Shaftesbury (SHB), and Hammerson (HMSO).
Shaftesbury Capital vs. Its Competitors
TalkTalk Telecom Group (LON:TALK) and Shaftesbury Capital (LON:SHC) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, TalkTalk Telecom Group had 1 more articles in the media than Shaftesbury Capital. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for TalkTalk Telecom Group and 0 mentions for Shaftesbury Capital. Shaftesbury Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat TalkTalk Telecom Group's score of -0.31 indicating that Shaftesbury Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shaftesbury Capital has a consensus target price of GBX 174, suggesting a potential upside of 16.95%. Given Shaftesbury Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Shaftesbury Capital is more favorable than TalkTalk Telecom Group.
TalkTalk Telecom Group received 699 more outperform votes than Shaftesbury Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Shaftesbury Capital an outperform vote while only 64.36% of users gave TalkTalk Telecom Group an outperform vote.
TalkTalk Telecom Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.03 per share. Shaftesbury Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. TalkTalk Telecom Group pays out 0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shaftesbury Capital pays out 145.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
68.3% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Shaftesbury Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TalkTalk Telecom Group. TalkTalk Telecom Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shaftesbury Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shaftesbury Capital has a net margin of 16.37% compared to TalkTalk Telecom Group's net margin of 0.00%. Shaftesbury Capital's return on equity of 1.07% beat TalkTalk Telecom Group's return on equity.
Summary
Shaftesbury Capital beats TalkTalk Telecom Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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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This page (LON:SHC) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
