ECEL vs. COD, SUR, NXR, SRAD, KGP, EPWN, ALU, HSM, TON, and NTBR
Should you be buying Eurocell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eurocell include Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Sureserve Group (SUR), Norcros (NXR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Kingspan Group (KGP), Epwin Group (EPWN), The Alumasc Group (ALU), Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM), Titon (TON), and Northern Bear (NTBR). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Eurocell vs.
Eurocell (LON:ECEL) and Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (LON:COD) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Eurocell received 108 more outperform votes than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.53% of users gave Eurocell an outperform vote while only 76.68% of users gave Compagnie de Saint-Gobain an outperform vote.
84.4% of Eurocell shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Eurocell shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.0% of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a net margin of 6.20% compared to Eurocell's net margin of 3.51%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's return on equity of 12.19% beat Eurocell's return on equity.
Eurocell has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eurocell presently has a consensus target price of GBX 200, indicating a potential upside of 38.89%. Given Eurocell's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Eurocell is more favorable than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain.
In the previous week, Eurocell and Eurocell both had 1 articles in the media. Eurocell's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's score of 0.30 indicating that Eurocell is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eurocell pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays an annual dividend of GBX 210 per share and has a dividend yield of 222.9%. Eurocell pays out 52.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain pays out 3,645.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has higher revenue and earnings than Eurocell. Eurocell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Eurocell beats Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ECEL) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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