COA vs. AIEA, HEIQ, LDSG, PPB, GAW, KGF, WTB, HWDN, BKG, and TW
Should you be buying Coats Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coats Group include AIREA (AIEA), HeiQ (HEIQ), Leeds Group (LDSG), Paddy Power Betfair (PPB), Games Workshop Group (GAW), Kingfisher (KGF), Whitbread (WTB), Howden Joinery Group (HWDN), The Berkeley Group (BKG), and Taylor Wimpey (TW). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Coats Group vs.
AIREA (LON:AIEA) and Coats Group (LON:COA) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
Coats Group received 212 more outperform votes than AIREA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.00% of users gave Coats Group an outperform vote while only 62.93% of users gave AIREA an outperform vote.
Coats Group has a consensus target price of GBX 112.50, suggesting a potential upside of 53.90%. Given Coats Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Coats Group is more favorable than AIREA.
10.4% of AIREA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.5% of Coats Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 54.1% of AIREA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Coats Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Coats Group has higher revenue and earnings than AIREA.
Coats Group has a net margin of 8.17% compared to AIREA's net margin of 0.31%. Coats Group's return on equity of 10.67% beat AIREA's return on equity.
AIREA pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Coats Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Coats Group pays out 67.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Coats Group had 1 more articles in the media than AIREA. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Coats Group and 0 mentions for AIREA. Coats Group's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat AIREA's score of 0.00 indicating that Coats Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AIREA has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coats Group has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Coats Group beats AIREA on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:COA) was last updated on 4/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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