Henry Boot (BOOT) Competitors

Pets at Home Group (LON:PETS) and Henry Boot (LON:BOOT) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.

Which has better earnings and valuation, PETS or BOOT?

Pets at Home Group has higher revenue and earnings than Henry Boot. Pets at Home Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Henry Boot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pets at Home Group	£1.48B	0.65	£79.20M	£0.16	1,311.25
Henry Boot	£285.69M	0.99	£11.31M	£0.08	2,637.50

Do insiders and institutionals believe in PETS or BOOT?

72.8% of Pets at Home Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.7% of Henry Boot shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Pets at Home Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 69.5% of Henry Boot shares are owned 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.

Is PETS or BOOT a better dividend stock?

Pets at Home Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Henry Boot pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Pets at Home Group pays out 8,125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Henry Boot pays out 8,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pets at Home Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PETS or BOOT?

Pets at Home Group received 264 more outperform votes than Henry Boot when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.47% of users gave Pets at Home Group an outperform vote while only 65.12% of users gave Henry Boot an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pets at Home Group	Outperform Votes 432 73.47%	Underperform Votes 156 26.53%
Henry Boot	Outperform Votes 168 65.12%	Underperform Votes 90 34.88%

Does the media favor PETS or BOOT?

In the previous week, Pets at Home Group had 1 more articles in the media than Henry Boot. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Pets at Home Group and 0 mentions for Henry Boot. Henry Boot's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Pets at Home Group's score of -1.04 indicating that Henry Boot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Pets at Home Group	Negative
Henry Boot	Neutral

Do analysts recommend PETS or BOOT?

Pets at Home Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 368.33, suggesting a potential upside of 75.56%. Given Pets at Home Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Pets at Home Group is more favorable than Henry Boot.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pets at Home Group	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Henry Boot	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has more volatility and risk, PETS or BOOT?

Pets at Home Group has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Henry Boot has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is PETS or BOOT more profitable?

Pets at Home Group has a net margin of 5.36% compared to Henry Boot's net margin of 3.97%. Pets at Home Group's return on equity of 7.87% beat Henry Boot's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pets at Home Group	5.36%	7.87%	4.66%
Henry Boot	3.97%	3.10%	1.71%

Summary

Pets at Home Group beats Henry Boot on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.