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FW Thorpe (TFW) Competitors

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GBX 300.64 +3.64 (+1.23%)
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TFW vs. SMS, VLX, LUCE, SUP, XPP, CWR, AFC, DWHA, DWHT, and IKA

Should you be buying FW Thorpe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FW Thorpe include Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Volex (VLX), Luceco (LUCE), Supreme (SUP), XP Power (XPP), Ceres Power (CWR), AFC Energy (AFC), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), and Ilika (IKA). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment & parts" industry.

FW Thorpe vs.

FW Thorpe (LON:TFW) and Smart Metering Systems (LON:SMS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.

10.9% of FW Thorpe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.9% of Smart Metering Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 70.8% of FW Thorpe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Smart Metering Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

FW Thorpe pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Smart Metering Systems pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share. FW Thorpe pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Smart Metering Systems pays out 27,272.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. FW Thorpe is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

FW Thorpe has higher revenue and earnings than Smart Metering Systems. Smart Metering Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FW Thorpe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
FW Thorpe£176.56M2.01£24.42M£20.6414.56
Smart Metering Systems£135.52M0.00£14.87M£0.11N/A

Smart Metering Systems received 203 more outperform votes than FW Thorpe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.93% of users gave Smart Metering Systems an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave FW Thorpe an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
FW ThorpeOutperform Votes
48
70.59%
Underperform Votes
20
29.41%
Smart Metering SystemsOutperform Votes
251
78.93%
Underperform Votes
67
21.07%

FW Thorpe has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Metering Systems has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Smart Metering Systems had 1 more articles in the media than FW Thorpe. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Smart Metering Systems and 0 mentions for FW Thorpe. Smart Metering Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat FW Thorpe's score of 0.00 indicating that Smart Metering Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
FW Thorpe Neutral
Smart Metering Systems Positive

FW Thorpe has a net margin of 13.83% compared to Smart Metering Systems' net margin of 10.97%. FW Thorpe's return on equity of 14.28% beat Smart Metering Systems' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
FW Thorpe13.83% 14.28% 8.02%
Smart Metering Systems 10.97%2.73%2.79%

Summary

FW Thorpe beats Smart Metering Systems on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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TFW vs. The Competition

MetricFW ThorpeElectrical Equipment & Parts IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£354.20M£3.97B£7.63B£2.63B
Dividend Yield1.35%3.63%4.58%5.05%
P/E Ratio14.568.8423.15134.99
Price / Sales2.011,253.2592.42224,419.26
Price / Cash11.4512.3626.9428.03
Price / Book2.003.183.973.80
Net Income£24.42M-£42.19M£807.24M£5.88B
7 Day Performance3.67%-0.78%0.10%0.38%
1 Month Performance4.39%12.15%10.54%21.44%
1 Year Performance-19.72%-12.61%26.19%129.76%

FW Thorpe Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TFW
FW Thorpe
N/AGBX 300.64
+1.2%
N/A-20.7%£354.20M£176.56M14.56900
SMS
Smart Metering Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.27B£135.52M8,654.551,361News Coverage
VLX
Volex
2.7504 of 5 stars
GBX 268.32
+0.3%
GBX 370
+37.9%
-22.8%£622.33M£1.29B14.4412,000News Coverage
LUCE
Luceco
N/AGBX 145.15
-0.6%
N/A-14.0%£233.36M£227.36M12.231,504
SUP
Supreme
N/AGBX 160
+1.3%
N/A+30.9%£186.27M£219.82M8.347,800Trending News
XPP
XP Power
3.0822 of 5 stars
GBX 740.92
+0.7%
GBX 1,470
+98.4%
-52.5%£179.26M£289.20M-12.262,435News Coverage
Positive News
CWR
Ceres Power
2.8413 of 5 stars
GBX 77.26
-2.6%
GBX 340
+340.1%
-66.3%£150.60M£39.90M-3.74591News Coverage
Positive News
AFC
AFC Energy
N/AGBX 11.07
-1.8%
N/A-53.8%£94.75M£497,288.65-4.23120Positive News
DWHA
Dewhurst Group
N/AGBX 553.33
-3.8%
N/A-17.6%£68.48M£93.67M8.43338
DWHT
Dewhurst Group
N/AGBX 1,014
+1.4%
N/A-14.9%£67.32M£50.25M8.29338Dividend Increase
IKA
Ilika
N/AGBX 36.77
+0.7%
N/A+27.5%£61.35M£799,031.68-12.1272News Coverage
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