YOU vs. RMG, TEM, GEN, SPT, DOCS, WIX, SST, CNIC, API, and SRAD
Should you be buying YouGov stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of YouGov include Royal Mail (RMG), Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEM), Genuit Group (GEN), Spirent Communications (SPT), Dr. Martens (DOCS), Wickes Group (WIX), Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (SST), CentralNic Group (CNIC), abrdn Property Income Trust (API), and Stelrad Group (SRAD). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
YouGov (LON:YOU) and Royal Mail (LON:RMG) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
YouGov has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Royal Mail. Royal Mail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YouGov, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.6% of YouGov shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of YouGov shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, YouGov had 7 more articles in the media than Royal Mail. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for YouGov and 10 mentions for Royal Mail. YouGov's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Royal Mail's score of -0.28 indicating that YouGov is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royal Mail received 300 more outperform votes than YouGov when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.47% of users gave YouGov an outperform vote while only 54.30% of users gave Royal Mail an outperform vote.
YouGov has a net margin of 8.41% compared to Royal Mail's net margin of 0.00%. YouGov's return on equity of 14.24% beat Royal Mail's return on equity.
YouGov currently has a consensus target price of GBX 905, indicating a potential upside of 92.55%.
YouGov pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Royal Mail pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share. YouGov pays out 4,500.0% 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.
Summary
YouGov beats Royal Mail on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding YOU and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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