SHI vs. BRCK, FLO, LORD, BMTO, BMT, SLNG, FERG, DPLM, RS1, and GFTU
Should you be buying SIG stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SIG include Brickability Group (BRCK), Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), Lords Group Trading (LORD), Braime Group (BMTO), Braime Group (BMT), H C Slingsby (SLNG), Ferguson (FERG), Diploma (DPLM), RS Group (RS1), and Grafton Group (GFTU). These companies are all part of the "industrial distribution" industry.
SIG (LON:SHI) and Brickability Group (LON:BRCK) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
65.5% of SIG shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.8% of Brickability Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.5% of SIG shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.2% of Brickability Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SIG received 560 more outperform votes than Brickability Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.91% of users gave Brickability Group an outperform vote while only 56.10% of users gave SIG an outperform vote.
SIG has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brickability Group has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Brickability Group had 1 more articles in the media than SIG. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Brickability Group and 2 mentions for SIG. Brickability Group's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat SIG's score of 0.08 indicating that Brickability Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SIG presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,081.70, indicating a potential upside of 3,997.35%. Given SIG's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe SIG is more favorable than Brickability Group.
SIG pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.2%. Brickability Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. SIG pays out -10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brickability Group pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SIG is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brickability Group has a net margin of 4.27% compared to SIG's net margin of -1.57%. Brickability Group's return on equity of 16.31% beat SIG's return on equity.
Brickability Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SIG. SIG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brickability Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Brickability Group beats SIG on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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