WIX vs. RMG, TEM, SPT, GEN, DOCS, YOU, CNIC, NET, SRAD, and GVP
Should you be buying Wickes Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wickes Group include Royal Mail (RMG), Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEM), Spirent Communications (SPT), Genuit Group (GEN), Dr. Martens (DOCS), YouGov (YOU), CentralNic Group (CNIC), Netcall (NET), Stelrad Group (SRAD), and Gabelli Value Plus+ Trust (GVP). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Wickes Group vs.
Royal Mail (LON:RMG) and Wickes Group (LON:WIX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
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 5.0%. 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.
68.5% of Wickes Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Wickes Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wickes Group has a consensus target price of GBX 215, suggesting a potential downside of 1.83%. Given Royal Mail's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Royal Mail is more favorable than Wickes Group.
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.
In the previous week, Wickes Group had 4 more articles in the media than Royal Mail. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Wickes Group and 0 mentions for Royal Mail. Wickes Group's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Royal Mail's score of 0.00 indicating that Wickes Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Wickes Group beats Royal Mail on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:WIX) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
