QQ vs. GEC, CHG, SNR, BBY, SRP, GFTU, DATA, WIZZ, RHIM, and TPK Should you be buying QinetiQ Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QinetiQ Group include General Electric (GEC), Chemring Group (CHG), Senior (SNR), Balfour Beatty (BBY), Serco Group (SRP), Grafton Group (GFTU), GlobalData (DATA), Wizz Air (WIZZ), RHI Magnesita (RHIM), and Travis Perkins (TPK). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
General Electric (LON:GEC ) and QinetiQ Group (LON:QQ ) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
QinetiQ Group has a net margin of 6.03% compared to QinetiQ Group's net margin of 5.05%. QinetiQ Group's return on equity of 13.64% beat General Electric's return on equity.
QinetiQ Group received 316 more outperform votes than General Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.77% of users gave General Electric an outperform vote while only 53.88% of users gave QinetiQ Group an outperform vote.
General Electric has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QinetiQ Group has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
General Electric pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share and has a dividend yield of 70.3%. QinetiQ Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. General Electric pays out 2,947.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. QinetiQ Group pays out 4,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. General Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
75.9% of General Electric shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.6% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of General Electric shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.0% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
General Electric has higher revenue and earnings than QinetiQ Group. General Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QinetiQ Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
QinetiQ Group has a consensus target price of GBX 443.40, suggesting a potential upside of 20.29%. Given General Electric's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe QinetiQ Group is more favorable than General Electric.
In the previous week, QinetiQ Group had 1 more articles in the media than General Electric. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for QinetiQ Group and 0 mentions for General Electric. QinetiQ Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled General Electric'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary General Electric and QinetiQ Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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