WJG vs. TEF, SPR, GLV, BDEV, TW, BKG, PSN, VTY, BWY, and RDW
Should you be buying Watkin Jones stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Watkin Jones include Telford Homes (TEF), Springfield Properties (SPR), Glenveagh Properties (GLV), Barratt Developments (BDEV), Taylor Wimpey (TW), The Berkeley Group (BKG), Persimmon (PSN), Vistry Group (VTY), Bellway (BWY), and Redrow (RDW). These companies are all part of the "residential construction" industry.
Telford Homes (LON:TEF) and Watkin Jones (LON:WJG) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Telford Homes has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Watkin Jones' net margin of -6.99%. Telford Homes' return on equity of 0.00% beat Watkin Jones' return on equity.
Telford Homes has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Watkin Jones. Watkin Jones is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telford Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Telford Homes pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share. Watkin Jones pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 22.8%. Telford Homes pays out 0.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Watkin Jones pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Watkin Jones is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Watkin Jones received 83 more outperform votes than Telford Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.80% of users gave Watkin Jones an outperform vote while only 65.42% of users gave Telford Homes an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Watkin Jones had 2 more articles in the media than Telford Homes. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Watkin Jones and 0 mentions for Telford Homes. Telford Homes' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Watkin Jones' score of -0.32 indicating that Telford Homes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
55.9% of Watkin Jones shares are held by institutional investors. 9.4% of Watkin Jones shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Watkin Jones has a consensus target price of GBX 50, indicating a potential upside of 90.11%.
Summary
Watkin Jones beats Telford Homes on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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