ALU vs. COD, NXR, SUR, ECEL, SRAD, EPWN, KGP, HSM, TON, and NTBR
Should you be buying The Alumasc Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Alumasc Group include Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Norcros (NXR), Sureserve Group (SUR), Eurocell (ECEL), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Epwin Group (EPWN), Kingspan Group (KGP), Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM), Titon (TON), and Northern Bear (NTBR). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
The Alumasc Group vs.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (LON:COD) and The Alumasc Group (LON:ALU) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Alumasc Group has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
52.6% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.8% of The Alumasc Group shares are held by institutional investors. 10.0% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.2% of The Alumasc Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
The Alumasc Group has a net margin of 8.69% compared to Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's net margin of 6.20%. The Alumasc Group's return on equity of 29.51% beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's return on equity.
The Alumasc Group received 238 more outperform votes than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.92% of users gave The Alumasc Group an outperform vote while only 76.68% of users gave Compagnie de Saint-Gobain an outperform vote.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays an annual dividend of GBX 210 per share and has a dividend yield of 238.8%. The Alumasc Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays out 3,690.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. The Alumasc Group pays out 4,583.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has higher revenue and earnings than The Alumasc Group. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Alumasc Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain had 1 more articles in the media than The Alumasc Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Compagnie de Saint-Gobain and 1 mentions for The Alumasc Group. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat The Alumasc Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Compagnie de Saint-Gobain is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain beats The Alumasc Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ALU) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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