IRS vs. GHC, LAUR, DRVN, PRDO, MCW, HTZ, AFYA, ZVO, EVGO, and UDMY
Should you be buying IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima include Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Hertz Global (HTZ), Afya (AFYA), Zovio (ZVO), EVgo (EVGO), and Udemy (UDMY). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima vs. Its Competitors
Graham (NYSE:GHC) and IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:IRS) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, community ranking and institutional ownership.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has a consensus price target of $13.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.75%. Given IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima is more favorable than Graham.
Graham has a net margin of 4.86% compared to IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's net margin of -79.08%. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's return on equity of 10.23% beat Graham's return on equity.
Graham pays an annual dividend of $7.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Graham pays out 5.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima pays out 60.8% 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. Graham has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Graham has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Graham has higher earnings, but lower revenue than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima. Graham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Graham had 3 more articles in the media than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Graham and 5 mentions for IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima. Graham's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's score of 0.05 indicating that Graham is being referred to more favorably in the media.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima received 35 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.67% of users gave Graham an outperform vote while only 51.76% of users gave IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima an outperform vote.
93.2% of Graham shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.4% of Graham shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.1% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Graham beats IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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