HLMA vs. CGEO, JARB, MSI, JAR, RFX, FIH, STRL, PHSC, VCBC, and BASK
Should you be buying Halma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Halma include Georgia Capital (CGEO), Jardine Matheson (JARB), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Jardine Matheson (JAR), Ramsdens (RFX), FIH group (FIH), Stirling Industries (STRL), PHSC (PHSC), Vertu Capital (VCBC), and Baskerville Capital (BASK). These companies are all part of the "conglomerates" industry.
Georgia Capital (LON:CGEO) and Halma (LON:HLMA) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
Halma has a consensus price target of GBX 2,315, indicating a potential upside of 4.00%. Given Georgia Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Halma is more favorable than Georgia Capital.
In the previous week, Georgia Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Halma. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Georgia Capital and 1 mentions for Halma. Georgia Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Halma's score of 0.01 indicating that Halma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
61.2% of Georgia Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.3% of Halma shares are held by institutional investors. 17.0% of Georgia Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Halma shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Halma received 397 more outperform votes than Georgia Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.38% of users gave Georgia Capital an outperform vote while only 57.26% of users gave Halma an outperform vote.
Georgia Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Halma. Georgia Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Halma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Georgia Capital has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Halma has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Georgia Capital has a net margin of 136.14% compared to Georgia Capital's net margin of 12.35%. Halma's return on equity of 19.65% beat Georgia Capital's return on equity.
Summary
Georgia Capital beats Halma on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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