TUNE vs. BOWL, PHTM, TEG, GYM, CCT, ESC, XPF, GOAL, TND, and PIER
Should you be buying Focusrite stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Focusrite include Hollywood Bowl Group (BOWL), Photo-Me International (PHTM), Ten Entertainment Group (TEG), The Gym Group (GYM), The Character Group (CCT), Escape Hunt (ESC), XP Factory (XPF), Goals Soccer Centres (GOAL), Tandem Group (TND), and The Brighton Pier Group (PIER). These companies are all part of the "leisure" industry.
Focusrite vs. Its Competitors
Focusrite (LON:TUNE) and Hollywood Bowl Group (LON:BOWL) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings and risk.
Hollywood Bowl Group has higher revenue and earnings than Focusrite. Hollywood Bowl Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Focusrite, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Focusrite presently has a consensus target price of GBX 355, suggesting a potential upside of 91.89%. Hollywood Bowl Group has a consensus target price of GBX 390, suggesting a potential upside of 43.38%. Given Focusrite's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Focusrite is more favorable than Hollywood Bowl Group.
Hollywood Bowl Group has a net margin of 15.73% compared to Focusrite's net margin of 6.99%. Hollywood Bowl Group's return on equity of 23.23% beat Focusrite's return on equity.
Focusrite has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hollywood Bowl Group has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
25.9% of Focusrite shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are held by institutional investors. 34.2% of Focusrite shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Hollywood Bowl Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Focusrite pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Hollywood Bowl Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Focusrite pays out 194.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hollywood Bowl Group pays out 72.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hollywood Bowl Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Hollywood Bowl Group had 10 more articles in the media than Focusrite. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Hollywood Bowl Group and 0 mentions for Focusrite. Hollywood Bowl Group's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Focusrite's score of 0.00 indicating that Hollywood Bowl Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Hollywood Bowl Group beats Focusrite on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:TUNE) was last updated on 10/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
