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Crest Nicholson (CRST) Competitors

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GBX 150 -1.80 (-1.19%)
(As of 11/15/2024 ET)

CRST vs. CRN, MCS, ABBY, GLE, TEF, SPR, WJG, GLV, BTRW, and BDEV

Should you be buying Crest Nicholson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crest Nicholson include Cairn Homes (CRN), McCarthy & Stone (MCS), Abbey (ABBY), MJ Gleeson (GLE), Telford Homes (TEF), Springfield Properties (SPR), Watkin Jones (WJG), Glenveagh Properties (GLV), Barratt Redrow (BTRW), and Barratt Developments (BDEV). These companies are all part of the "residential construction" industry.

Crest Nicholson vs.

Cairn Homes (LON:CRN) and Crest Nicholson (LON:CRST) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Cairn Homes has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crest Nicholson has a beta of 2, suggesting that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.

69.1% of Cairn Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of Crest Nicholson shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Cairn Homes shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Crest Nicholson shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Cairn Homes had 2 more articles in the media than Crest Nicholson. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Cairn Homes and 0 mentions for Crest Nicholson. Cairn Homes' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Crest Nicholson's score of 0.00 indicating that Cairn Homes is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Cairn Homes Neutral
Crest Nicholson Neutral

Cairn Homes presently has a consensus target price of GBX 175, indicating a potential downside of 3.95%. Crest Nicholson has a consensus target price of GBX 220.50, indicating a potential upside of 47.00%. Given Crest Nicholson's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Crest Nicholson is more favorable than Cairn Homes.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cairn Homes
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Crest Nicholson
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.50

Cairn Homes has a net margin of 13.72% compared to Crest Nicholson's net margin of -4.21%. Cairn Homes' return on equity of 14.97% beat Crest Nicholson's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cairn Homes13.72% 14.97% 7.83%
Crest Nicholson -4.21%-3.17%0.16%

Cairn Homes pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Crest Nicholson pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Cairn Homes pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Crest Nicholson pays out -13,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crest Nicholson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Cairn Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Crest Nicholson. Crest Nicholson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cairn Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cairn Homes£813.40M1.41£111.62M£0.141,301.43
Crest Nicholson£632.30M0.61-£26.60M-£0.10-1,500.00

Crest Nicholson received 472 more outperform votes than Cairn Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.42% of users gave Cairn Homes an outperform vote while only 68.60% of users gave Crest Nicholson an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Cairn HomesOutperform Votes
96
77.42%
Underperform Votes
28
22.58%
Crest NicholsonOutperform Votes
568
68.60%
Underperform Votes
260
31.40%

Summary

Cairn Homes beats Crest Nicholson on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CRST vs. The Competition

MetricCrest NicholsonResidential Construction IndustryCyclical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£384.48M£2.36B£2.78B£1.62B
Dividend Yield6.64%4.09%3.98%6.83%
P/E Ratio-1,500.00532.45364.491,753.00
Price / Sales0.6185.76391.80249,198.64
Price / Cash2.085.4028.2427.47
Price / Book0.480.873.412.84
Net Income-£26.60M£180.79M£275.31M£158.19M
7 Day Performance-5.12%-0.28%-0.84%-0.63%
1 Month Performance-19.79%-5.86%-1.74%3.34%
1 Year Performance-18.88%73.62%14.15%124.27%

Crest Nicholson Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRST
Crest Nicholson
2.4738 of 5 stars
GBX 150
-1.2%
GBX 220.50
+47.0%
-18.8%£384.48M£632.30M-1,500.00778
CRN
Cairn Homes
0.7081 of 5 stars
GBX 182.20
-0.3%
N/A+70.9%£1.14B£813.40M1,301.43350
MCS
McCarthy & Stone
N/AN/AN/AN/A£644.25M£621.43M21.397,500High Trading Volume
ABBY
Abbey
N/AN/AN/A+0.0%£334.03M£192.13M12.79228Gap Up
High Trading Volume
GLE
MJ Gleeson
1.5167 of 5 stars
GBX 541
-2.7%
N/A+18.9%£315.84M£345.34M1,639.39743News Coverage
TEF
Telford Homes
N/AN/AN/AN/A£265.88M£336.12M7.85104,200High Trading Volume
SPR
Springfield Properties
N/AGBX 93
-2.1%
N/A+37.8%£110.44M£266.53M1,550.00636
WJG
Watkin Jones
3.0499 of 5 stars
GBX 23.95
-0.4%
N/A-49.4%£61.47M£434.48M-199.58727News Coverage
Gap Up
GLV
Glenveagh Properties
N/AGBX 1.57
-1.3%
N/A+54.2%£9.05M£588.54M19.56502
BTRW
Barratt Redrow
N/AGBX 409.50
-0.2%
N/AN/A£0.00N/A0.006,270
BDEV
Barratt Developments
1.646 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£6.94B£4.17B4,017.506,728

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This page (LON:CRST) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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