AHT vs. AGK, BWO, REDD, NTG, VP, ASY, AA4, SDY, AVAP, and ANX
Should you be buying Ashtead Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashtead Group include Aggreko (AGK), Barloworld (BWO), Redde Northgate (REDD), Northgate (NTG), VP (VP), Andrews Sykes Group (ASY), Amedeo Air Four Plus (AA4), Speedy Hire (SDY), Avation (AVAP), and Anexo Group (ANX). These companies are all part of the "rental & leasing services" industry.
Ashtead Group (LON:AHT) and Aggreko (LON:AGK) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and risk.
Ashtead Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 4,970.63, indicating a potential downside of 12.61%. Given Ashtead Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ashtead Group is more favorable than Aggreko.
62.3% of Ashtead Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Ashtead Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ashtead Group received 440 more outperform votes than Aggreko when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.26% of users gave Ashtead Group an outperform vote while only 48.21% of users gave Aggreko an outperform vote.
Ashtead Group has a net margin of 15.17% compared to Aggreko's net margin of 0.00%. Ashtead Group's return on equity of 25.67% beat Aggreko's return on equity.
Ashtead Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Aggreko pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Ashtead Group pays out 2,749.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Aggreko pays out -0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Ashtead Group had 1 more articles in the media than Aggreko. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ashtead Group and 0 mentions for Aggreko. Ashtead Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Aggreko's score of 0.00 indicating that Ashtead Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ashtead Group has higher revenue and earnings than Aggreko. Aggreko is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ashtead Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ashtead Group beats Aggreko on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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