APH vs. SPI, ESP, RTN, IPF, SGM, MSI, MCP, BERI, AMAT, and STM
Should you be buying Alliance Pharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Pharma include Spire Healthcare Group (SPI), Empiric Student Property (ESP), The Restaurant Group (RTN), International Personal Finance (IPF), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and STM Group (STM). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
Alliance Pharma vs.
Alliance Pharma (LON:APH) and Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Alliance Pharma pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Alliance Pharma pays out -32.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 42.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Alliance Pharma is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Spire Healthcare Group has a net margin of 1.96% compared to Alliance Pharma's net margin of -18.34%. Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity of 3.82% beat Alliance Pharma's return on equity.
Spire Healthcare Group has higher revenue and earnings than Alliance Pharma. Alliance Pharma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Healthcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.3% of Alliance Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.0% of Alliance Pharma shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Spire Healthcare Group received 153 more outperform votes than Alliance Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.89% of users gave Alliance Pharma an outperform vote while only 60.96% of users gave Spire Healthcare Group an outperform vote.
Alliance Pharma has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alliance Pharma currently has a consensus target price of GBX 6,250, suggesting a potential upside of 9,635.20%. Spire Healthcare Group has a consensus target price of GBX 314.67, suggesting a potential upside of 75.61%. Given Alliance Pharma's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Alliance Pharma is more favorable than Spire Healthcare Group.
In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group had 5 more articles in the media than Alliance Pharma. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group and 0 mentions for Alliance Pharma. Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Alliance Pharma's score of 0.00 indicating that Spire Healthcare Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Spire Healthcare Group beats Alliance Pharma on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:APH) was last updated on 3/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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