FAN vs. TPK, GEN, JHD, TYMN, COD, SUR, NXR, SRAD, ECEL, and KGP
Should you be buying Volution Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Volution Group include Travis Perkins (TPK), Genuit Group (GEN), James Halstead (JHD), Tyman (TYMN), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Sureserve Group (SUR), Norcros (NXR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Eurocell (ECEL), and Kingspan Group (KGP). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Travis Perkins (LON:TPK) and Volution Group (LON:FAN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Volution Group has a net margin of 12.54% compared to Volution Group's net margin of 0.78%. Travis Perkins' return on equity of 18.87% beat Volution Group's return on equity.
Travis Perkins currently has a consensus target price of GBX 863, suggesting a potential upside of 0.41%. Volution Group has a consensus target price of GBX 500, suggesting a potential upside of 10.86%. Given Travis Perkins' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Volution Group is more favorable than Travis Perkins.
In the previous week, Travis Perkins and Travis Perkins both had 2 articles in the media. Travis Perkins' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Volution Group's score of -0.26 indicating that Volution Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Travis Perkins has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Volution Group has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Travis Perkins received 483 more outperform votes than Volution Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.96% of users gave Volution Group an outperform vote while only 72.18% of users gave Travis Perkins an outperform vote.
74.0% of Travis Perkins shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Volution Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Travis Perkins shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Volution Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volution Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Travis Perkins. Volution Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Travis Perkins, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Travis Perkins pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Volution Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Travis Perkins pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Volution Group pays out 3,809.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Volution Group beats Travis Perkins on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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