BRBY vs. WOSG, NXT, SKG, SMDS, MKS, BDEV, ENT, GAW, WTB, and PPB
Should you be buying Burberry Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burberry Group include Watches of Switzerland Group (WOSG), NEXT (NXT), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), DS Smith (SMDS), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), Barratt Developments (BDEV), Entain (ENT), Games Workshop Group (GAW), Whitbread (WTB), and Paddy Power Betfair (PPB). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Burberry Group vs.
Watches of Switzerland Group (LON:WOSG) and Burberry Group (LON:BRBY) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Watches of Switzerland Group has a beta of 2.17, indicating that its share price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Burberry Group has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Burberry Group had 2 more articles in the media than Watches of Switzerland Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Burberry Group and 1 mentions for Watches of Switzerland Group. Burberry Group's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Watches of Switzerland Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Burberry Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Watches of Switzerland Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 480, indicating a potential downside of 7.69%. Burberry Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,050, indicating a potential downside of 1.22%. Given Burberry Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Burberry Group is more favorable than Watches of Switzerland Group.
67.4% of Watches of Switzerland Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.8% of Burberry Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Watches of Switzerland Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Burberry Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Burberry Group received 537 more outperform votes than Watches of Switzerland Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.18% of users gave Watches of Switzerland Group an outperform vote while only 45.03% of users gave Burberry Group an outperform vote.
Burberry Group has a net margin of 9.10% compared to Watches of Switzerland Group's net margin of 3.84%. Burberry Group's return on equity of 23.93% beat Watches of Switzerland Group's return on equity.
Burberry Group has higher revenue and earnings than Watches of Switzerland Group. Burberry Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Watches of Switzerland Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Burberry Group beats Watches of Switzerland Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:BRBY) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
