BRBY vs. VTY, PSN, FRAS, BDEV, KGF, ENT, HWDN, TW, SMDS, and INCH
Should you be buying Burberry Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burberry Group include Vistry Group (VTY), Persimmon (PSN), Frasers Group (FRAS), Barratt Developments (BDEV), Kingfisher (KGF), Entain (ENT), Howden Joinery Group (HWDN), Taylor Wimpey (TW), DS Smith (SMDS), and Inchcape (INCH). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Burberry Group (LON:BRBY) and Vistry Group (LON:VTY) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Burberry Group received 530 more outperform votes than Vistry Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.47% of users gave Vistry Group an outperform vote while only 45.05% of users gave Burberry Group an outperform vote.
Burberry Group has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vistry Group has a beta of 2.11, indicating that its share price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.7% of Burberry Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.7% of Vistry Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Burberry Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Vistry Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Burberry Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 61 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Vistry Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 55 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Burberry Group pays out 8,243.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Vistry Group pays out 8,593.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Burberry Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Burberry Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Vistry Group. Burberry Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vistry Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Burberry Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,732.33, indicating a potential upside of 57.48%. Vistry Group has a consensus price target of GBX 956, indicating a potential downside of 26.80%. Given Burberry Group's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Burberry Group is more favorable than Vistry Group.
Burberry Group has a net margin of 9.10% compared to Vistry Group's net margin of 6.27%. Burberry Group's return on equity of 20.13% beat Vistry Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Burberry Group had 6 more articles in the media than Vistry Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Burberry Group and 7 mentions for Vistry Group. Vistry Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Burberry Group's score of 0.20 indicating that Vistry Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Burberry Group beats Vistry Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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