CARR vs. ATS, NVT, VEND, DCI, TRT, GRC, SYM, AVS, CVR, and RR
Should you be buying Carr's Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carr's Group include Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Northern Venture Trust (NVT), Ventus VCT D (VEND), DCI Advisors (DCI), Transense Technologies (TRT), GRC International Group (GRC), Symphony Environmental Technologies (SYM), Avesco Group (AVS), Conviviality Plc, (CVR), and Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (RR). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
Carr's Group vs.
Artemis Alpha Trust (LON:ATS) and Carr's Group (LON:CARR) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and risk.
22.2% of Artemis Alpha Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.1% of Carr's Group shares are held by institutional investors. 28.0% of Artemis Alpha Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.6% of Carr's Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Artemis Alpha Trust has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carr's Group has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Carr's Group had 6 more articles in the media than Artemis Alpha Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Carr's Group and 0 mentions for Artemis Alpha Trust. Carr's Group's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Artemis Alpha Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Carr's Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carr's Group received 101 more outperform votes than Artemis Alpha Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.54% of users gave Carr's Group an outperform vote while only 58.77% of users gave Artemis Alpha Trust an outperform vote.
Artemis Alpha Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share. Carr's Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Artemis Alpha Trust pays out 1,296.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Carr's Group pays out -80,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carr's Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Artemis Alpha Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carr's Group. Carr's Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Artemis Alpha Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Artemis Alpha Trust has a net margin of 86.71% compared to Carr's Group's net margin of -1.12%. Artemis Alpha Trust's return on equity of 13.86% beat Carr's Group's return on equity.
Summary
Carr's Group beats Artemis Alpha Trust on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:CARR) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
