DPLM vs. RS1, GFTU, SHI, BRCK, LORD, FLO, BMTO, BMT, SLNG, and FERG
Should you be buying Diploma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diploma include RS Group (RS1), Grafton Group (GFTU), SIG (SHI), Brickability Group (BRCK), Lords Group Trading (LORD), Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), Braime Group (BMTO), Braime Group (BMT), H C Slingsby (SLNG), and Ferguson (FERG). These companies are all part of the "industrial distribution" industry.
Diploma (LON:DPLM) and RS Group (LON:RS1) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Diploma has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RS Group has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
78.6% of Diploma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of RS Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Diploma shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of RS Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Diploma received 269 more outperform votes than RS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.95% of users gave Diploma an outperform vote while only 45.83% of users gave RS Group an outperform vote.
RS Group has higher revenue and earnings than Diploma. RS Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diploma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, RS Group had 7 more articles in the media than Diploma. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for RS Group and 1 mentions for Diploma. Diploma's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat RS Group's score of 0.28 indicating that Diploma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Diploma pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. RS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Diploma pays out 6,705.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RS Group pays out 5,641.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RS Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Diploma presently has a consensus target price of GBX 3,950, suggesting a potential downside of 3.47%. RS Group has a consensus target price of GBX 870, suggesting a potential upside of 23.67%. Given RS Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe RS Group is more favorable than Diploma.
Diploma has a net margin of 9.25% compared to RS Group's net margin of 6.24%. Diploma's return on equity of 13.39% beat RS Group's return on equity.
Summary
Diploma beats RS Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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