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Wilmington (WIL) Competitors

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GBX 325 -5.00 (-1.52%)
As of 10/23/2025 11:50 AM Eastern

WIL vs. WEY, OBOR, MLVN, GFHG, CODE, ASIA, GNC, FEVR, DCG, and BAG

Should you be buying Wilmington stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wilmington include Wey Education (WEY), Starcrest Education The Belt & Road Limited (OBOR.L) (OBOR), Malvern International (MLVN), Grand Fortune High Grade (GFHG), Northcoders Group (CODE), Asia Strategic (ASIA), Greencore Group (GNC), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), Dairy Crest Group (DCG), and A.G. BARR (BAG). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.

Wilmington vs. Its Competitors

Wilmington (LON:WIL) and Wey Education (LON:WEY) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.

54.3% of Wilmington shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Wilmington shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Wilmington has a net margin of 18.89% compared to Wey Education's net margin of 0.00%. Wilmington's return on equity of 18.71% beat Wey Education's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Wilmington18.89% 18.71% 7.72%
Wey Education N/A N/A N/A

Wilmington presently has a consensus price target of GBX 455, suggesting a potential upside of 40.00%. Given Wilmington's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Wilmington is more favorable than Wey Education.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Wilmington
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Wey Education
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Wilmington has higher revenue and earnings than Wey Education. Wey Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wilmington, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Wilmington£101.49M2.87£18.57M£12.6725.65
Wey Education£8.36M0.00N/A£0.60N/A

In the previous week, Wilmington had 32 more articles in the media than Wey Education. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Wilmington and 0 mentions for Wey Education. Wey Education's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Wilmington's score of -0.16 indicating that Wey Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Wilmington Neutral
Wey Education Neutral

Summary

Wilmington beats Wey Education on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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WIL vs. The Competition

MetricWilmingtonEducation & Training Services IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£291.06M£43.74M£7.55B£2.61B
Dividend Yield3.53%3.05%3.25%5.37%
P/E Ratio25.656.77873.60400.16
Price / Sales2.8759.301,011,604.8898,165.99
Price / Cash13.106.17144.7427.90
Price / Book2.521.629.097.36
Net Income£18.57M£3.33M£1.01B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-7.14%-0.72%1.75%0.71%
1 Month Performance-4.41%3.66%0.28%0.95%
1 Year Performance-14.47%1.07%150.47%116.77%

Wilmington Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WIL
Wilmington
3.4428 of 5 stars
GBX 325
-1.5%
GBX 455
+40.0%
-15.6%£291.06M£101.49M25.651,000Trending News
WEY
Wey Education
N/AN/AN/AN/A£66.08M£8.36M78.75200
OBOR
Starcrest Education The Belt & Road Limited (OBOR.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£10.89MN/A-0.09N/AGap Up
High Trading Volume
MLVN
Malvern International
N/AGBX 25.99
0.0%
N/A+46.8%£6.35M£17.79M6,839.47153
GFHG
Grand Fortune High Grade
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.40M£26.00-8.75N/A
CODE
Northcoders Group
N/AGBX 32.58
-2.7%
N/A-77.9%£2.61M£8.14M743.84128Positive News
Gap Down
ASIA
Asia Strategic
N/AGBX 3
-29.4%
N/A-29.4%£91K£27.03M-1.592,231Gap Down
High Trading Volume
GNC
Greencore Group
N/AGBX 241
-0.8%
N/A+14.8%£1.07B£1.86B24.2913,602Dividend Cut
FEVR
Fevertree Drinks
3.2621 of 5 stars
GBX 874
+2.8%
GBX 930
+6.4%
+14.5%£1.02B£339.90M4,126.53375Positive News
DCG
Dairy Crest Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£958.60M£461.60M22.081,100
BAG
A.G. BARR
2.9043 of 5 stars
GBX 678
+0.4%
GBX 770
+13.6%
+8.8%£754.19M£427.20M1,565.101,030Positive News

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This page (LON:WIL) was last updated on 10/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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