SONG vs. MCS, TKO, LION, SPHR, CCPC, TMO, CCP, CCPA, MVR, and EMAN
Should you be buying Hipgnosis Songs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hipgnosis Songs include McCarthy & Stone (MCS), Taseko Mines (TKO), Lionsgold (LION), Sphere Medical (SPHR), Celtic (CCPC), Time Out Group (TMO), Celtic (CCP), Celtic (CCPA), Napster Group (MVR), and Everyman Media Group (EMAN).
McCarthy & Stone (LON:MCS) and Hipgnosis Songs (LON:SONG) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
McCarthy & Stone pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Hipgnosis Songs pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. McCarthy & Stone pays out 0.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hipgnosis Songs pays out -5,555.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Hipgnosis Songs is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
McCarthy & Stone has higher revenue and earnings than Hipgnosis Songs. Hipgnosis Songs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McCarthy & Stone, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.7% of Hipgnosis Songs shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Hipgnosis Songs shares are held by 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.
McCarthy & Stone received 326 more outperform votes than Hipgnosis Songs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.08% of users gave McCarthy & Stone an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Hipgnosis Songs an outperform vote.
In the previous week, McCarthy & Stone and McCarthy & Stone both had 1 articles in the media. Hipgnosis Songs' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat McCarthy & Stone's score of 0.00 indicating that McCarthy & Stone is being referred to more favorably in the media.
McCarthy & Stone has a net margin of 0.00% compared to McCarthy & Stone's net margin of -106.70%. Hipgnosis Songs' return on equity of 0.00% beat McCarthy & Stone's return on equity.
Summary
McCarthy & Stone beats Hipgnosis Songs on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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