INSE vs. FRAN, RST, DWF, CPI, KEYS, DLAR, BEG, KGH, WATR, and SFT
Should you be buying Inspired stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Inspired include Franchise Brands (FRAN), Restore (RST), DWF Group (DWF), Capita (CPI), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), De La Rue (DLAR), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Knights Group (KGH), Water Intelligence (WATR), and Software Circle (SFT). These companies are all part of the "specialty business services" industry.
Franchise Brands (LON:FRAN) and Inspired (LON:INSE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Franchise Brands had 8 more articles in the media than Inspired. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Franchise Brands and 1 mentions for Inspired. Franchise Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Inspired's score of 0.30 indicating that Inspired is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Franchise Brands has a net margin of 2.97% compared to Franchise Brands' net margin of -7.25%. Inspired's return on equity of 1.19% beat Franchise Brands' return on equity.
38.9% of Franchise Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Inspired shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.1% of Franchise Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Inspired shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Franchise Brands pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Inspired pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Franchise Brands pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Inspired pays out -4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Inspired is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Franchise Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Inspired. Inspired is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franchise Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Franchise Brands has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inspired has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Inspired received 81 more outperform votes than Franchise Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.12% of users gave Franchise Brands an outperform vote while only 65.37% of users gave Inspired an outperform vote.
Summary
Franchise Brands beats Inspired on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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