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Wilmington (WIL) Competitors

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As of 05/22/2025 11:48 AM Eastern

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

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), Bakkavor Group (BAKK), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), Dairy Crest Group (DCG), and Greencore Group (GNC). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.

Wilmington vs.

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

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 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£98.26M3.28£18.57M£20.8617.26
Wey Education£8.36M0.00N/A£0.60N/A

Wilmington received 367 more outperform votes than Wey Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.68% of users gave Wilmington an outperform vote while only 66.17% of users gave Wey Education an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
WilmingtonOutperform Votes
455
79.68%
Underperform Votes
116
20.32%
Wey EducationOutperform Votes
88
66.17%
Underperform Votes
45
33.83%

80.2% of Wilmington shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Wilmington shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Wilmington had 31 more articles in the media than Wey Education. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Wilmington and 0 mentions for Wey Education. Wilmington's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Wey Education's score of 0.00 indicating that Wilmington is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Wilmington Neutral
Wey Education Neutral

Summary

Wilmington beats Wey Education on 11 of the 12 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£322.21M£54.72M£6.95B£2.62B
Dividend Yield3.05%2.89%3.16%5.05%
P/E Ratio17.261.2912.07129.34
Price / Sales3.2861.5484.32221,585.85
Price / Cash13.107.39147.7728.03
Price / Book2.802.812.993.79
Net Income£18.57M£3.69M£1.01B£5.88B
7 Day Performance2.27%2.64%1.38%0.30%
1 Month Performance1.41%1.99%19.09%21.29%
1 Year Performance-6.25%2.08%63.49%129.43%

Wilmington Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WIL
Wilmington
N/AGBX 360
flat
N/A-5.0%£322.21M£98.26M17.261,000Trending 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 20
-2.4%
N/A+5.5%£4.89M£13.54M-19.95153Positive News
Gap Down
GFHG
Grand Fortune High Grade
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.40M£26.00-8.75N/A
CODE
Northcoders Group
N/AGBX 46.26
-1.6%
N/A-64.0%£3.71M£7.93M-5.78128
ASIA
Asia Strategic
N/AN/AN/AN/A£128,000.00£27.03M-2.252,231Gap Down
BAKK
Bakkavor Group
1.746 of 5 stars
GBX 188.60
+0.7%
GBX 165
-12.5%
+54.2%£1.10B£2.26B17.1718,000High Trading Volume
FEVR
Fevertree Drinks
2.0167 of 5 stars
GBX 856
+0.1%
GBX 1,658.33
+93.7%
-24.5%£1.09B£394.92M45.57375
DCG
Dairy Crest Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£958.60M£461.60M22.081,100
GNC
Greencore Group
0.5519 of 5 stars
GBX 188.60
-0.2%
GBX 130
-31.1%
+28.4%£820.85M£1.72B17.0613,602Dividend Cut

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This page (LON:WIL) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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