ASC vs. SQZ, PAC, SHIP, TORO, RYA, PAL, NSH, ALK, PXS, and CLCO
Should you be buying ASOS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ASOS include Serica Energy (SQZ), Pacific Assets (PAC), Tufton Oceanic Assets (SHIP), Chenavari Toro Income Fund (TORO), Ryanair (RYA), Equatorial Palm Oil plc (PAL.L) (PAL), Norish (NSH), Alkemy Capital Investments (ALK), Provexis (PXS), and CloudCoCo Group (CLCO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
ASOS vs.
Serica Energy (LON:SQZ) and ASOS (LON:ASC) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Serica Energy has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASOS has a beta of 2.86, suggesting that its stock price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ASOS received 682 more outperform votes than Serica Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.69% of users gave Serica Energy an outperform vote while only 68.76% of users gave ASOS an outperform vote.
Serica Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ASOS. Serica Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ASOS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
28.3% of Serica Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of ASOS shares are held by institutional investors. 37.7% of Serica Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.4% of ASOS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Serica Energy has a net margin of -1.09% compared to ASOS's net margin of -11.66%. Serica Energy's return on equity of -1.09% beat ASOS's return on equity.
Serica Energy currently has a consensus price target of GBX 208.33, suggesting a potential upside of 55.47%. ASOS has a consensus price target of GBX 391, suggesting a potential upside of 38.06%. Given Serica Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Serica Energy is more favorable than ASOS.
In the previous week, ASOS had 33 more articles in the media than Serica Energy. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for ASOS and 1 mentions for Serica Energy. Serica Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat ASOS's score of 0.30 indicating that Serica Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Serica Energy beats ASOS on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ASC) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
