WG vs. PLP, VCT, BREE, EVR, CEY, HGM, POLY, ACA, FAN, and CNE
Should you be buying John Wood Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Wood Group include Genuit Group (PLP), Victrex (VCT), Breedon Group (BREE), EVRAZ (EVR), Centamin (CEY), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Polymetal International (POLY), Acacia Mining (ACA), Volution Group (FAN), and Capricorn Energy (CNE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
John Wood Group vs.
Genuit Group (LON:PLP) and John Wood Group (LON:WG) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
John Wood Group has a consensus target price of GBX 209.80, indicating a potential upside of 4.59%. Given John Wood Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe John Wood Group is more favorable than Genuit Group.
Genuit Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than John Wood Group. John Wood Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genuit Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Genuit Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled John Wood Group's average media sentiment score.
John Wood Group received 174 more outperform votes than Genuit Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.92% of users gave Genuit Group an outperform vote while only 62.76% of users gave John Wood Group an outperform vote.
Genuit Group has a net margin of 0.00% compared to John Wood Group's net margin of -0.61%. Genuit Group's return on equity of 0.00% beat John Wood Group's return on equity.
109.3% of John Wood Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of John Wood Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
John Wood Group beats Genuit Group on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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