VTY vs. AVST, PSN, BLND, RMG, TEM, SPT, GEN, DOCS, WIX, and YOU
Should you be buying Vistry Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vistry Group include Avast (AVST), Persimmon (PSN), British Land (BLND), Royal Mail (RMG), Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEM), Spirent Communications (SPT), Genuit Group (GEN), Dr. Martens (DOCS), Wickes Group (WIX), and YouGov (YOU). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Vistry Group vs. Its Competitors
Vistry Group (LON:VTY) and Avast (LON:AVST) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
76.0% of Vistry Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Vistry Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Vistry Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 613.33, suggesting a potential downside of 10.09%. Given Avast's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Avast is more favorable than Vistry Group.
Vistry Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 55 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Avast pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.16 per share. Vistry Group pays out 73.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avast pays out 69.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Vistry Group had 8 more articles in the media than Avast. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Vistry Group and 0 mentions for Avast. Vistry Group's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Avast's score of 0.00 indicating that Vistry Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Avast received 61 more outperform votes than Vistry Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.02% of users gave Avast an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Vistry Group an outperform vote.
Vistry Group has higher revenue and earnings than Avast. Avast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vistry Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vistry Group has a net margin of 6.90% compared to Avast's net margin of 0.00%. Vistry Group's return on equity of 7.69% beat Avast's return on equity.
Summary
Vistry Group beats Avast on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:VTY) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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