WIX vs. RMG, VTY, TEM, SPT, GEN, DOCS, YOU, CNIC, SLP, and SRAD
Should you be buying Wickes Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wickes Group include Royal Mail (RMG), Vistry Group (VTY), Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEM), Spirent Communications (SPT), Genuit Group (GEN), Dr. Martens (DOCS), YouGov (YOU), CentralNic Group (CNIC), Sylvania Platinum (SLP), and Stelrad Group (SRAD). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Wickes Group vs. Its Competitors
Royal Mail (LON:RMG) and Wickes Group (LON:WIX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking and risk.
Royal Mail received 500 more outperform votes than Wickes Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 96.00% of users gave Wickes Group an outperform vote while only 54.30% of users gave Royal Mail an outperform vote.
Royal Mail pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share. Wickes Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Royal Mail pays out 27.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wickes Group pays out 88.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Wickes Group has a net margin of 2.01% compared to Royal Mail's net margin of 0.00%. Wickes Group's return on equity of 19.39% beat Royal Mail's return on equity.
Wickes Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Royal Mail. Royal Mail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wickes Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wickes Group has a consensus price target of GBX 215, suggesting a potential downside of 5.91%. Given Royal Mail's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Royal Mail is more favorable than Wickes Group.
In the previous week, Wickes Group had 1 more articles in the media than Royal Mail. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Wickes Group and 0 mentions for Royal Mail. Royal Mail's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Wickes Group'saverage media sentiment score.
68.5% of Wickes Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Wickes Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Wickes Group beats Royal Mail on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:WIX) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
