Cake Box (CBOX) Competitors

McColl's Retail Group (LON:MCLS) and Cake Box (LON:CBOX) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Is MCLS or CBOX a better dividend stock?

McColl's Retail Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share. Cake Box pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. McColl's Retail Group pays out -4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cake Box pays out 78.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do analysts prefer MCLS or CBOX?

Cake Box has a consensus target price of GBX 220, suggesting a potential upside of 33.33%. Given Cake Box's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cake Box is more favorable than McColl's Retail Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
McColl's Retail Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Cake Box	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in MCLS or CBOX?

McColl's Retail Group received 273 more outperform votes than Cake Box when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.06% of users gave McColl's Retail Group an outperform vote while only 53.19% of users gave Cake Box an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
McColl's Retail Group	Outperform Votes 298 75.06%	Underperform Votes 99 24.94%
Cake Box	Outperform Votes 25 53.19%	Underperform Votes 22 46.81%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, MCLS or CBOX?

Cake Box has lower revenue, but higher earnings than McColl's Retail Group. McColl's Retail Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cake Box, 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
McColl's Retail Group	£1.23B	0.00	-£8M	-£0.07	N/A
Cake Box	£38.64M	1.74	£4.76M	£11.41	14.46

Does the media prefer MCLS or CBOX?

In the previous week, Cake Box had 4 more articles in the media than McColl's Retail Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Cake Box and 0 mentions for McColl's Retail Group. Cake Box's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat McColl's Retail Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Cake Box is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
McColl's Retail Group	Neutral
Cake Box	Neutral

Do institutionals and insiders believe in MCLS or CBOX?

9.6% of McColl's Retail Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.2% of Cake Box shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.9% of Cake Box shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more risk and volatility, MCLS or CBOX?

McColl's Retail Group has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cake Box has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is MCLS or CBOX more profitable?

Cake Box has a net margin of 12.31% compared to McColl's Retail Group's net margin of -0.65%. Cake Box's return on equity of 25.44% beat McColl's Retail Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
McColl's Retail Group	-0.65%	-37.96%	1.39%
Cake Box	12.31%	25.44%	13.19%

Summary

Cake Box beats McColl's Retail Group on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.