BKG vs. TW, BDEV, PSN, VTY, BWY, RDW, CRN, MCS, CRST, and ABBY
Should you be buying The Berkeley Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Berkeley Group include Taylor Wimpey (TW), Barratt Developments (BDEV), Persimmon (PSN), Vistry Group (VTY), Bellway (BWY), Redrow (RDW), Cairn Homes (CRN), McCarthy & Stone (MCS), Crest Nicholson (CRST), and Abbey (ABBY). These companies are all part of the "residential construction" industry.
Taylor Wimpey (LON:TW) and The Berkeley Group (LON:BKG) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends and valuation.
Taylor Wimpey has a beta of 1.76, meaning that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Berkeley Group has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Taylor Wimpey currently has a consensus price target of GBX 135.50, suggesting a potential downside of 7.32%. The Berkeley Group has a consensus price target of GBX 4,614.86, suggesting a potential downside of 11.93%. Given The Berkeley Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Taylor Wimpey is more favorable than The Berkeley Group.
In the previous week, Taylor Wimpey had 3 more articles in the media than The Berkeley Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Taylor Wimpey and 1 mentions for The Berkeley Group. The Berkeley Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Taylor Wimpey's score of 0.07 indicating that Taylor Wimpey is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The Berkeley Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Taylor Wimpey. The Berkeley Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Taylor Wimpey, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.4% of Taylor Wimpey shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of The Berkeley Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Taylor Wimpey shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of The Berkeley Group shares are owned 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 Berkeley Group has a net margin of 17.92% compared to The Berkeley Group's net margin of 9.93%. Taylor Wimpey's return on equity of 13.75% beat The Berkeley Group's return on equity.
Taylor Wimpey pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. The Berkeley Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Taylor Wimpey 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. The Berkeley Group pays out 2,185.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Taylor Wimpey received 825 more outperform votes than The Berkeley Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.25% of users gave Taylor Wimpey an outperform vote while only 67.95% of users gave The Berkeley Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Taylor Wimpey beats The Berkeley Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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