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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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This page (LON:TFW) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
