STCM vs. MBH, ECOB, CRH, BREE, PLP, SRC, IBST, MSLH, FORT, and CAPD
Should you be buying Steppe Cement stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steppe Cement include Michelmersh Brick (MBH), Eco Buildings Group (ECOB), CRH (CRH), Breedon Group (BREE), Genuit Group (PLP), SigmaRoc (SRC), Ibstock (IBST), Marshalls (MSLH), Forterra (FORT), and Capital (CAPD). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Steppe Cement vs.
Michelmersh Brick (LON:MBH) and Steppe Cement (LON:STCM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Michelmersh Brick currently has a consensus price target of GBX 166.67, indicating a potential upside of 52.63%. Given Michelmersh Brick's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Michelmersh Brick is more favorable than Steppe Cement.
Michelmersh Brick received 35 more outperform votes than Steppe Cement when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.74% of users gave Steppe Cement an outperform vote while only 72.61% of users gave Michelmersh Brick an outperform vote.
Michelmersh Brick has a net margin of 11.46% compared to Steppe Cement's net margin of 1.22%. Michelmersh Brick's return on equity of 8.82% beat Steppe Cement's return on equity.
Michelmersh Brick pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Steppe Cement pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Michelmersh Brick pays out 56.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Steppe Cement pays out 565.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Michelmersh Brick has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Steppe Cement. Michelmersh Brick is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steppe Cement, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
47.1% of Michelmersh Brick shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Steppe Cement shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.2% of Michelmersh Brick shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.2% of Steppe Cement shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Michelmersh Brick and Michelmersh Brick both had 1 articles in the media. Steppe Cement's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Michelmersh Brick's score of 0.00 indicating that Steppe Cement is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Michelmersh Brick has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steppe Cement has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Michelmersh Brick beats Steppe Cement on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:STCM) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
