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Smiths News (SNWS) Competitors

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GBX 63 -1.20 (-1.87%)
(As of 12/11/2024 ET)

SNWS vs. BMY, DODS, RCH, LBG, CNCT, QRT, HYNS, XLM, QRTR, and INM

Should you be buying Smiths News stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smiths News include Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Dods Group (DODS), Reach (RCH), LBG Media (LBG), Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT), The Quarto Group (QRT), Haynes Publishing Group (HYNS), XLMedia (XLM), The Quarto Group (QRTR), and Independent News & Media (INM). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.

Smiths News vs.

Smiths News (LON:SNWS) and Bloomsbury Publishing (LON:BMY) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Smiths News has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomsbury Publishing has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Bloomsbury Publishing has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Smiths News. Smiths News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomsbury Publishing, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Smiths News£1.08B0.14£23.40M£0.09700.00
Bloomsbury Publishing£342.65M1.59£32.30M£0.391,717.95

Smiths News currently has a consensus target price of GBX 80, suggesting a potential upside of 26.98%. Bloomsbury Publishing has a consensus target price of GBX 825, suggesting a potential upside of 23.13%. Given Smiths News' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Smiths News is more favorable than Bloomsbury Publishing.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Smiths News
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Bloomsbury Publishing
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Bloomsbury Publishing received 240 more outperform votes than Smiths News when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Smiths News an outperform vote while only 68.48% of users gave Bloomsbury Publishing an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Smiths NewsOutperform Votes
12
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
Bloomsbury PublishingOutperform Votes
252
68.48%
Underperform Votes
116
31.52%

64.6% of Smiths News shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.1% of Smiths News shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Bloomsbury Publishing has a net margin of 9.43% compared to Smiths News' net margin of 2.16%. Bloomsbury Publishing's return on equity of 16.55% beat Smiths News' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Smiths News2.16% N/A 12.57%
Bloomsbury Publishing 9.43%16.55%7.82%

In the previous week, Smiths News had 2 more articles in the media than Bloomsbury Publishing. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Smiths News and 0 mentions for Bloomsbury Publishing. Smiths News' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Bloomsbury Publishing's score of 0.00 indicating that Smiths News is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Smiths News Positive
Bloomsbury Publishing Neutral

Smiths News pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Bloomsbury Publishing pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Smiths News pays out 5,555.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bloomsbury Publishing pays out 3,846.2% 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

Smiths News beats Bloomsbury Publishing on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SNWS vs. The Competition

MetricSmiths NewsPublishing IndustryCommunication SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£149.37M£1.24B£2.89B£1.41B
Dividend Yield7.89%5.67%6.80%12.31%
P/E Ratio700.001,035.82324.701,632.39
Price / Sales0.14179.02125.40340,356.43
Price / Cash3.0624.7916.6232.61
Price / Book-10.502.483.942.89
Net Income£23.40M£78.75M£121.54M£126.42M
7 Day Performance1.61%-0.40%1.57%4.94%
1 Month Performance3.28%0.07%3.45%6.37%
1 Year Performance26.00%16.20%12.78%105.98%

Smiths News Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SNWS
Smiths News
3.8262 of 5 stars
GBX 63
-1.9%
GBX 80
+27.0%
+26.9%£149.37M£1.08B700.001,489News Coverage
High Trading Volume
BMY
Bloomsbury Publishing
1.214 of 5 stars
GBX 662
-1.2%
GBX 825
+24.6%
+43.9%£539.13M£342.65M1,717.9534,300Gap Down
DODS
Dods Group
N/AGBX 75
flat
N/AN/A£436.55M£25.50M-125.00929Gap Down
RCH
Reach
N/AGBX 88.70
-1.4%
N/A+28.9%£279.57M£554.20M692.313,706
LBG
LBG Media
N/AGBX 118
-1.7%
GBX 170
+44.1%
+35.0%£246.71M£82.54M3,000.00446
CNCT
Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£63.41M£1.44B-1.413News Coverage
Gap Up
QRT
The Quarto Group
N/AGBX 140
+12.0%
N/A+5.7%£57.25M£131.15M538.46305Gap Down
HYNS
Haynes Publishing Group
N/AGBX 685
flat
N/A+0.0%£41.86M£36.89M47.57251
XLM
XLMedia
N/AGBX 11.90
-0.8%
N/A+54.8%£30.85M£43.76M-92.31100
QRTR
The Quarto Group
N/AGBX 61.50
+7.0%
N/AN/A£25.15M£126.28M5.97330Gap Up
High Trading Volume
INM
Independent News & Media
N/AGBX 0.10
+0.5%
N/A+0.0%£1.44M£191M14.86800

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This page (LON:SNWS) was last updated on 12/11/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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