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De La Rue (DLAR) Competitors

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GBX 95.80
-2.80 (-2.84%)
(As of 11/1/2024 ET)

DLAR vs. JSG, RWS, DWF, RST, CPI, FRAN, KEYS, BEG, KGH, and SFT

Should you be buying De La Rue stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of De La Rue include Johnson Service Group (JSG), RWS (RWS), DWF Group (DWF), Restore (RST), Capita (CPI), Franchise Brands (FRAN), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Knights Group (KGH), and Software Circle (SFT). These companies are all part of the "specialty business services" industry.

De La Rue vs.

Johnson Service Group (LON:JSG) and De La Rue (LON:DLAR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Johnson Service Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 185, indicating a potential upside of 26.89%. Given Johnson Service Group's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Johnson Service Group is more favorable than De La Rue.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Johnson Service Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
De La Rue
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A

74.3% of Johnson Service Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.8% of De La Rue shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Johnson Service Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.8% of De La Rue shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Johnson Service Group has a net margin of 6.29% compared to De La Rue's net margin of -6.45%. Johnson Service Group's return on equity of 11.11% beat De La Rue's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Johnson Service Group6.29% 11.11% 6.40%
De La Rue -6.45%-151.59%3.47%

In the previous week, Johnson Service Group and Johnson Service Group both had 1 articles in the media. Johnson Service Group's average media sentiment score of 0.75 equaled De La Rue'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Johnson Service Group
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
De La Rue
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Johnson Service Group received 55 more outperform votes than De La Rue when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.13% of users gave Johnson Service Group an outperform vote while only 64.98% of users gave De La Rue an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Johnson Service GroupOutperform Votes
235
74.13%
Underperform Votes
82
25.87%
De La RueOutperform Votes
180
64.98%
Underperform Votes
97
35.02%

Johnson Service Group has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, De La Rue has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Johnson Service Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. De La Rue pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 24.0%. Johnson Service Group 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. De La Rue pays out -23,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. De La Rue is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Johnson Service Group has higher revenue and earnings than De La Rue. De La Rue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Johnson Service Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Johnson Service Group£494.40M1.22£31M£0.072,082.86
De La Rue£310.30M0.61-£20M-£0.10-958.00

Summary

Johnson Service Group beats De La Rue on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DLAR vs. The Competition

MetricDe La RueSpecialty Business Services IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£187.81M£6.45B£3.99B£1.62B
Dividend Yield16.64%5.08%4.18%10.98%
P/E Ratio-958.001,009.84527.651,767.83
Price / Sales0.61125.75430.42235,535.20
Price / Cash5.6437.5726.6336.46
Price / Book-15.973.683.662.87
Net Income-£20M£178.72M£184.15M£145.83M
7 Day Performance-2.84%0.11%0.08%0.11%
1 Month Performance6.44%-0.13%0.00%-0.11%
1 Year Performance63.76%94.71%29.86%15.63%

De La Rue Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DLAR
De La Rue
N/AGBX 95.80
-2.8%
N/A+63.2%£187.81M£310.30M-958.001,841Gap Up
JSG
Johnson Service Group
2.0129 of 5 stars
GBX 146.48
+0.3%
GBX 185
+26.3%
+13.2%£607.16M£494.40M2,092.576,165
RWS
RWS
N/AGBX 132
-17.1%
GBX 380
+187.9%
-29.2%£486.67M£717.80M-1,466.677,040Dividend Increase
Insider Buying
High Trading Volume
DWF
DWF Group
N/AGBX 99.60
flat
N/AN/A£340.61M£451.64M2,490.004,340News Coverage
RST
Restore
3.9509 of 5 stars
GBX 245
+1.0%
GBX 380
+55.1%
+33.7%£334.84M£276.90M8,166.672,700Gap Down
CPI
Capita
3.5049 of 5 stars
GBX 18.94
-1.1%
GBX 1,117.50
+5,800.2%
+11.8%£320.09M£2.57B-947.0043,000Gap Up
FRAN
Franchise Brands
N/AGBX 160.80
-1.0%
N/A+28.7%£309.32M£139.19M4,020.00715Gap Down
KEYS
Keystone Law Group
N/AGBX 525.30
-3.6%
N/A+26.6%£165.94M£92.34M2,188.7576News Coverage
BEG
Begbies Traynor Group
2.6496 of 5 stars
GBX 94
+1.3%
GBX 158
+68.1%
-22.3%£148.92M£136.73M9,400.001,051Dividend Cut
Insider Selling
High Trading Volume
KGH
Knights Group
N/AGBX 113.84
-3.1%
N/A+44.5%£97.91M£149.96M1,034.911,353
SFT
Software Circle
N/AGBX 24.30
-2.8%
N/A+101.6%£94.79M£16.16M-2,430.00131Gap Down

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This page (LON:DLAR) was last updated on 11/2/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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