SQZ vs. CCL, DAL, ASC, PAC, RYA, SAVE, PAL, NSH, PXS, and SHIP
Should you be buying Serica Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Serica Energy include Carnival Co. & (CCL), Dalata Hotel Group (DAL), ASOS (ASC), Pacific Assets (PAC), Ryanair (RYA), Savannah Energy (SAVE), Equatorial Palm Oil plc (PAL.L) (PAL), Norish (NSH), Provexis (PXS), and Tufton Oceanic Assets (SHIP). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Carnival Co. & (LON:CCL) and Serica Energy (LON:SQZ) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.69, indicating that its share price is 169% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Serica Energy has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Serica Energy has a net margin of 16.28% compared to Carnival Co. &'s net margin of 3.85%. Serica Energy's return on equity of 19.36% beat Carnival Co. &'s return on equity.
44.7% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.3% of Serica Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.8% of Serica Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Carnival Co. & received 90 more outperform votes than Serica Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.57% of users gave Serica Energy an outperform vote while only 64.14% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
Carnival Co. & pays an annual dividend of GBX 156 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. Serica Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.8%. Carnival Co. & pays out 28,888.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Serica Energy pays out 8,518.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Serica Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Carnival Co. & has higher revenue and earnings than Serica Energy. Serica Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival Co. &, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Serica Energy had 10 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Serica Energy and 1 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Serica Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Carnival Co. &'s score of 0.00 indicating that Serica Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Serica Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 225, indicating a potential upside of 74.15%. Given Serica Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Serica Energy is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.
Summary
Serica Energy beats Carnival Co. & on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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