ENT vs. HWDN, KGF, TW, SMDS, BDEV, PSN, BKG, MKS, VTY, and WTB
Should you be buying Entain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Entain include Howden Joinery Group (HWDN), Kingfisher (KGF), Taylor Wimpey (TW), DS Smith (SMDS), Barratt Developments (BDEV), Persimmon (PSN), The Berkeley Group (BKG), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), Vistry Group (VTY), and Whitbread (WTB). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Entain (LON:ENT) and Howden Joinery Group (LON:HWDN) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical 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.
In the previous week, Howden Joinery Group had 3 more articles in the media than Entain. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Howden Joinery Group and 0 mentions for Entain. Howden Joinery Group's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Entain's score of -0.02 indicating that Howden Joinery Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Entain presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,143.17, indicating a potential upside of 56.90%. Howden Joinery Group has a consensus target price of GBX 856.43, indicating a potential downside of 8.11%. Given Entain's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Entain is more favorable than Howden Joinery Group.
Entain has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howden Joinery Group has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.2% of Entain shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.1% of Howden Joinery Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Entain shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Howden Joinery Group 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.
Howden Joinery Group received 568 more outperform votes than Entain when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 98.00% of users gave Entain an outperform vote while only 72.39% of users gave Howden Joinery Group an outperform vote.
Howden Joinery Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Entain. Entain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Howden Joinery Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Howden Joinery Group has a net margin of 11.02% compared to Entain's net margin of -19.47%. Howden Joinery Group's return on equity of 27.52% beat Entain's return on equity.
Entain pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Howden Joinery Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Entain pays out -1,276.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Howden Joinery Group pays out 4,565.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Entain is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Howden Joinery Group beats Entain on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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