SNR vs. CHG, BOE, GEC, CHRT, AVON, VEL, HARL, AERO, RR, and BA
Should you be buying Senior stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Senior include Chemring Group (CHG), Boeing (BOE), General Electric (GEC), Cohort (CHRT), Avon Protection (AVON), Velocity Composites (VEL), Harland & Wolff Group (HARL), Strat Aero (AERO), Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (RR), and BAE Systems (BA). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
Senior vs. Its Competitors
Senior (LON:SNR) and Chemring Group (LON:CHG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Senior received 280 more outperform votes than Chemring Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.81% of users gave Senior an outperform vote while only 61.53% of users gave Chemring Group an outperform vote.
Senior has a net margin of 3.09% compared to Chemring Group's net margin of 0.64%. Senior's return on equity of 6.67% beat Chemring Group's return on equity.
Senior has higher revenue and earnings than Chemring Group. Senior is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemring Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.0% of Senior shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 114.2% of Chemring Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Senior shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Chemring Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chemring Group has a consensus price target of GBX 460, indicating a potential downside of 20.14%. Given Chemring Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chemring Group is more favorable than Senior.
In the previous week, Chemring Group had 1 more articles in the media than Senior. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Chemring Group and 2 mentions for Senior. Chemring Group's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Senior's score of 0.00 indicating that Chemring Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Senior has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chemring Group has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Senior pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Chemring Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Senior pays out 27.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chemring Group pays out 857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Chemring Group beats Senior on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SNR) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff