TFW vs. VLX, CWR, LUCE, XPP, SUP, AFC, SMS, OCN, GDWN, and RWI
Should you be buying FW Thorpe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FW Thorpe include Volex (VLX), Ceres Power (CWR), Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Supreme (SUP), AFC Energy (AFC), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Goodwin (GDWN), and Renewi (RWI). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
FW Thorpe (LON:TFW) and Volex (LON:VLX) 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, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.
FW Thorpe has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Volex has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
FW Thorpe has a net margin of 12.47% compared to Volex's net margin of 4.67%. Volex's return on equity of 14.16% beat FW Thorpe's return on equity.
FW Thorpe pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Volex pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. FW Thorpe pays out 3,684.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Volex pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, FW Thorpe and FW Thorpe both had 3 articles in the media. FW Thorpe's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Volex's score of 0.30 indicating that FW Thorpe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Volex has higher revenue and earnings than FW Thorpe. Volex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FW Thorpe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volex received 187 more outperform votes than FW Thorpe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.56% of users gave Volex an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave FW Thorpe an outperform vote.
10.9% of FW Thorpe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.3% of Volex shares are held by institutional investors. 70.8% of FW Thorpe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 34.0% of Volex shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Volex has a consensus target price of GBX 420, indicating a potential upside of 33.97%. Given Volex's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Volex is more favorable than FW Thorpe.
Summary
Volex beats FW Thorpe on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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