WIN vs. IDS, KLR, RNWH, ICGC, JHD, SNR, RWS, FAN, MGAM, and REDD
Should you be buying Wincanton stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wincanton include International Distributions Services (IDS), Keller Group (KLR), Renew (RNWH), Irish Continental Group (ICGC), James Halstead (JHD), Senior (SNR), RWS (RWS), Volution Group (FAN), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), and Redde Northgate (REDD). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
International Distributions Services (LON:IDS) and Wincanton (LON:WIN) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Wincanton received 365 more outperform votes than International Distributions Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.09% of users gave Wincanton an outperform vote while only 11.11% of users gave International Distributions Services an outperform vote.
84.5% of International Distributions Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Wincanton shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of International Distributions Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Wincanton shares are owned by company 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.
Wincanton has a net margin of 1.85% compared to Wincanton's net margin of -8.37%. International Distributions Services' return on equity of 51.39% beat Wincanton's return on equity.
International Distributions Services presently has a consensus price target of GBX 277.67, indicating a potential downside of 0.12%. Wincanton has a consensus price target of GBX 365, indicating a potential downside of 39.57%. Given Wincanton's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe International Distributions Services is more favorable than Wincanton.
International Distributions Services has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wincanton has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
International Distributions Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Wincanton pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. International Distributions Services pays out -1,904.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wincanton pays out 6,190.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. International Distributions Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, International Distributions Services had 18 more articles in the media than Wincanton. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for International Distributions Services and 2 mentions for Wincanton. International Distributions Services' average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Wincanton's score of -0.10 indicating that Wincanton is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wincanton has lower revenue, but higher earnings than International Distributions Services. International Distributions Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wincanton, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Wincanton beats International Distributions Services on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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