SNWS vs. DMGT, BMY, DODS, RCH, LBG, CNCT, QRT, HYNS, XLM, and QRTR
Should you be buying Smiths News stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smiths News include Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Dods Group (DODS), Reach (RCH), LBG Media (LBG), Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT), The Quarto Group (QRT), Haynes Publishing Group (HYNS), XLMedia (XLM), and The Quarto Group (QRTR). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.
Smiths News (LON:SNWS) and Daily Mail and General Trust (LON:DMGT) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Smiths News currently has a consensus price target of GBX 80, indicating a potential upside of 31.15%.
In the previous week, Smiths News had 12 more articles in the media than Daily Mail and General Trust. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Smiths News and 2 mentions for Daily Mail and General Trust. Daily Mail and General Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Smiths News' score of 0.14 indicating that Daily Mail and General Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Smiths News has higher revenue and earnings than Daily Mail and General Trust. Daily Mail and General Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smiths News, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Smiths News has a net margin of 2.16% compared to Daily Mail and General Trust's net margin of 0.00%.
61.7% of Smiths News shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.1% of Smiths News shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Smiths News pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Daily Mail and General Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.24 per share. Smiths News pays out 5,555.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Daily Mail and General Trust pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Daily Mail and General Trust received 499 more outperform votes than Smiths News when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Smiths News an outperform vote while only 66.45% of users gave Daily Mail and General Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Smiths News beats Daily Mail and General Trust on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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