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Severn Trent (SVT) Competitors

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GBX 2,739 -3.00 (-0.11%)
As of 05/23/2025 12:30 PM Eastern

SVT vs. ACA, IGP, NWF, EML, PRZ, SHAW, SKY, CRH, UU, and PNN

Should you be buying Severn Trent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Severn Trent include Acacia Mining (ACA), Intercede Group (IGP), NWF Group (NWF), Emmerson (EML), 18705 (PRZ.L) (PRZ), Shawbrook Group (SHAW), SKY (SKY), CRH (CRH), United Utilities Group (UU), and Pennon Group (PNN).

Severn Trent vs.

Acacia Mining (LON:ACA) and Severn Trent (LON:SVT) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.

75.4% of Severn Trent shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Severn Trent shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Severn Trent has higher revenue and earnings than Acacia Mining. Acacia Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Severn Trent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Acacia Mining£645.41M0.00N/A£0.50N/A
Severn Trent£2.97B2.76£177.90M£59.9145.72

Severn Trent has a consensus price target of GBX 2,600, suggesting a potential downside of 5.07%. Given Acacia Mining's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Acacia Mining is more favorable than Severn Trent.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Acacia Mining
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Severn Trent
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Severn Trent has a net margin of 6.00% compared to Acacia Mining's net margin of 0.00%. Severn Trent's return on equity of 10.40% beat Acacia Mining's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Acacia MiningN/A N/A N/A
Severn Trent 6.00%10.40%2.35%

In the previous week, Severn Trent had 5 more articles in the media than Acacia Mining. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Severn Trent and 0 mentions for Acacia Mining. Severn Trent's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Acacia Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that Severn Trent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Acacia Mining Neutral
Severn Trent Positive

Acacia Mining received 628 more outperform votes than Severn Trent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.21% of users gave Acacia Mining an outperform vote while only 52.35% of users gave Severn Trent an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Acacia MiningOutperform Votes
995
75.21%
Underperform Votes
328
24.79%
Severn TrentOutperform Votes
367
52.35%
Underperform Votes
334
47.65%

Summary

Severn Trent beats Acacia Mining on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SVT vs. The Competition

MetricSevern TrentUtilities IndustryUtilities SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£8.18B£3.74B£16.12B£2.66B
Dividend Yield4.83%5.42%5.65%4.79%
P/E Ratio45.7220.3220.42135.74
Price / Sales2.76208.1934.40224,602.93
Price / Cash18.1615.7318.7128.30
Price / Book3.513.132.123.89
Net Income£177.90M£72.05M£661.92M£5.94B
7 Day Performance2.43%1.62%1.49%3.64%
1 Month Performance1.33%1.88%3.00%24.61%
1 Year Performance11.84%7.28%9.45%29.34%

Severn Trent Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SVT
Severn Trent
1.1914 of 5 stars
GBX 2,739
-0.1%
GBX 2,600
-5.1%
+11.8%£8.18B£2.97B45.72270News Coverage
Earnings Report
ACA
Acacia Mining
N/AN/AN/AN/A£959.60M£645.41M468.005,230High Trading Volume
IGP
Intercede Group
N/AGBX 172.76
-1.5%
N/A+51.8%£97.81M£19.41M16.1899Positive News
NWF
NWF Group
N/AGBX 162.90
+0.6%
N/A-19.1%£80.88M£954.62M8.891,339News Coverage
EML
Emmerson
N/AGBX 1.94
-7.1%
N/A-6.4%£31.09MN/A-8.571,190Gap Up
High Trading Volume
PRZ
18705 (PRZ.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.002,570Gap Down
SHAW
Shawbrook Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
SKY
SKY
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.008,400
CRH
CRH
N/AGBX 7,306
-1.1%
N/A+10.8%£62.33B£44.94B16.6877,400
UU
United Utilities Group
1.7049 of 5 stars
GBX 1,114
+1.5%
GBX 1,230
+10.4%
+12.1%£7.63B£1.96B60.136,000High Trading Volume
PNN
Pennon Group
1.3818 of 5 stars
GBX 499.47
+0.7%
GBX 497
-0.5%
-15.5%£2.32B£1.55B-140.433,000News Coverage
Dividend Cut

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This page (LON:SVT) was last updated on 5/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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