DNLM vs. SMWH, PETS, CURY, FRAS, MOON, ROO, JET, RDW, CCL, and MAB
Should you be buying Dunelm Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dunelm Group include WH Smith (SMWH), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Currys (CURY), Frasers Group (FRAS), Moonpig Group (MOON), Deliveroo (ROO), Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET), Redrow (RDW), Carnival Co. & (CCL), and Mitchells & Butlers (MAB). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM) and WH Smith (LON:SMWH) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.
Dunelm Group has a net margin of 8.92% compared to WH Smith's net margin of 3.44%. Dunelm Group's return on equity of 79.51% beat WH Smith's return on equity.
Dunelm Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than WH Smith. Dunelm Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WH Smith, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dunelm Group received 257 more outperform votes than WH Smith when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.65% of users gave Dunelm Group an outperform vote while only 62.42% of users gave WH Smith an outperform vote.
50.3% of Dunelm Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of WH Smith shares are held by institutional investors. 44.1% of Dunelm Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of WH Smith shares are held 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.
Dunelm Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,189, suggesting a potential upside of 7.89%. WH Smith has a consensus price target of GBX 1,967.50, suggesting a potential upside of 71.09%. Given WH Smith's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe WH Smith is more favorable than Dunelm Group.
Dunelm Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. WH Smith pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Dunelm Group pays out 5,890.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. WH Smith pays out 6,530.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dunelm Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Dunelm Group has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WH Smith has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, WH Smith had 3 more articles in the media than Dunelm Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for WH Smith and 1 mentions for Dunelm Group. WH Smith's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Dunelm Group's score of 0.00 indicating that WH Smith is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dunelm Group beats WH Smith on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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