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Wickes Group (WIX) Competitors

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GBX 224 +3.50 (+1.59%)
As of 10/3/2025 11:50 AM Eastern

WIX vs. RMG, SPT, DOCS, GEN, YOU, CNIC, SST, SLP, SRAD, and NET

Should you be buying Wickes Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wickes Group include Royal Mail (RMG), Spirent Communications (SPT), Dr. Martens (DOCS), Genuit Group (GEN), YouGov (YOU), CentralNic Group (CNIC), Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (SST), Sylvania Platinum (SLP), Stelrad Group (SRAD), and Netcall (NET). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Wickes Group vs. Its Competitors

Wickes Group (LON:WIX) and Royal Mail (LON:RMG) are both small-cap computer software companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

In the previous week, Wickes Group had 3 more articles in the media than Royal Mail. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Wickes Group and 0 mentions for Royal Mail. Wickes Group's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Royal Mail's score of 0.00 indicating that Wickes Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Wickes Group Positive
Royal Mail Neutral

Wickes Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Royal Mail pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share. Wickes Group pays out 114.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Royal Mail pays out 27.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Wickes Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 215, indicating a potential downside of 4.02%. Given Royal Mail's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Royal Mail is more favorable than Wickes Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Wickes Group
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
Royal Mail
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Wickes Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Wickes Group£1.58B0.32£29.25M£0.102,357.89
Royal Mail£12.71B0.00N/A£0.61N/A

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Wickes Group2.01% 19.39% 3.77%
Royal Mail N/A N/A N/A

49.9% of Wickes Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Wickes Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Wickes Group beats Royal Mail on 11 of the 15 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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WIX vs. The Competition

MetricWickes GroupHome Improvement Retail IndustryCyclical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£496.76M£1.54B£3.90B£2.59B
Dividend Yield4.94%3.36%3.53%5.30%
P/E Ratio2,357.89998.68623.414,421.35
Price / Sales0.3236.55231.6299,678.00
Price / Cash2.145.1131.1627.90
Price / Book3.614.613.648.04
Net Income£29.25M£105.72M£264.31M£5.89B
7 Day Performance2.75%1.03%1.30%4.35%
1 Month Performance12.56%9.50%1.24%6.26%
1 Year Performance35.59%-0.20%36.90%143.90%

Wickes Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WIX
Wickes Group
2.2445 of 5 stars
GBX 224
+1.6%
GBX 215
-4.0%
+35.6%£496.76M£1.58B2,357.895,930Positive News
Earnings Report
RMG
Royal Mail
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.98B£12.71B339.34100
SPT
Spirent Communications
1.8334 of 5 stars
GBX 198.38
0.0%
GBX 207.67
+4.7%
+16.0%£1.15B£471M15,998.711,526News Coverage
DOCS
Dr. Martens
2.0504 of 5 stars
GBX 97.70
-1.7%
GBX 6,000
+6,041.2%
+65.1%£943.46M£787.60M19,540.00890Positive News
Dividend Cut
GEN
Genuit Group
3.4292 of 5 stars
GBX 363.47
-1.1%
GBX 514
+41.4%
-22.9%£903.45M£586.70M1,873.562,700Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
YOU
YouGov
3.7432 of 5 stars
GBX 298
-0.5%
GBX 662.50
+122.3%
-31.5%£349.24M£383.90M42,571.431,820Trending News
CNIC
CentralNic Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£339.82M£790.04M-12,660.00100
SST
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos
N/AGBX 278
-0.7%
N/A-81.6%£320.02M£38.69M999.14320Dividend Increase
SLP
Sylvania Platinum
1.313 of 5 stars
GBX 93
+0.6%
GBX 90
-3.2%
+89.2%£241.90M£104.23M2,209.03160
SRAD
Stelrad Group
1.4337 of 5 stars
GBX 165
+1.5%
GBX 200
+21.2%
+5.8%£210.13M£283.94M4,230.772,960
NET
Netcall
1.2321 of 5 stars
GBX 124
+0.4%
GBX 138.33
+11.6%
+47.0%£206.80M£43.18M4,078.953,220News Coverage

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This page (LON:WIX) was last updated on 10/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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