JHD vs. TPK, GEN, FAN, TYMN, COD, SUR, NXR, SRAD, ECEL, and KGP
Should you be buying James Halstead stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of James Halstead include Travis Perkins (TPK), Genuit Group (GEN), Volution Group (FAN), 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 James Halstead (LON:JHD) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and valuation.
74.0% of Travis Perkins shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.4% of James Halstead shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Travis Perkins shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 43.4% of James Halstead 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.
James Halstead has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Travis Perkins. James Halstead is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Travis Perkins, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Travis Perkins had 1 more articles in the media than James Halstead. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Travis Perkins and 1 mentions for James Halstead. Travis Perkins' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat James Halstead's score of -0.26 indicating that James Halstead is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Travis Perkins received 724 more outperform votes than James Halstead when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.51% of users gave James Halstead an outperform vote while only 72.18% of users gave Travis Perkins an outperform vote.
Travis Perkins pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. James Halstead pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. 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. James Halstead pays out 7,272.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. James Halstead is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Travis Perkins has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, James Halstead has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Travis Perkins currently has a consensus price target of GBX 863, indicating a potential upside of 0.41%. Given James Halstead's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Travis Perkins is more favorable than James Halstead.
James Halstead has a net margin of 15.30% compared to James Halstead's net margin of 0.78%. Travis Perkins' return on equity of 26.85% beat James Halstead's return on equity.
Summary
James Halstead beats Travis Perkins on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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