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Franchise Brands (FRAN) Competitors

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GBX 133.56 +1.56 (+1.18%)
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FRAN vs. JSG, RST, DWF, RWS, DLAR, KEYS, BEG, KGH, INSE, and SFT

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

Franchise Brands vs. Its Competitors

Johnson Service Group (LON:JSG) and Franchise Brands (LON:FRAN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Johnson Service Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 200, suggesting a potential upside of 45.77%. Given Johnson Service Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Johnson Service Group is more favorable than Franchise Brands.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Johnson Service Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Franchise Brands
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Johnson Service Group has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franchise Brands has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Johnson Service Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Franchise Brands pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Johnson Service Group pays out 40.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franchise Brands pays out 50.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Johnson Service Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, Franchise Brands had 9 more articles in the media than Johnson Service Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Franchise Brands and 0 mentions for Johnson Service Group. Johnson Service Group's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Franchise Brands' score of 0.45 indicating that Johnson Service Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Johnson Service Group Positive
Franchise Brands Neutral

74.3% of Johnson Service Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.0% of Franchise Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Johnson Service Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 39.0% of Franchise Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Franchise Brands has a net margin of 6.43% compared to Johnson Service Group's net margin of 6.29%. Johnson Service Group's return on equity of 10.95% beat Franchise Brands' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Johnson Service Group6.29% 10.95% 6.40%
Franchise Brands 6.43%3.60%3.24%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Johnson Service Group£495.01M1.15£31.14M£7.5018.28
Franchise Brands£120.55M2.14£7.75M£3.9833.53

Summary

Johnson Service Group beats Franchise Brands on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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FRAN vs. The Competition

MetricFranchise BrandsSpecialty Business Services IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£258.14M£6.69B£7.63B£3.07B
Dividend Yield1.51%4.93%4.57%5.02%
P/E Ratio33.5332.1125.39168.22
Price / Sales2.14134.9999.19339,980.05
Price / Cash29.0040.5428.3127.97
Price / Book1.197.604.344.55
Net Income£7.75M£144.67M£795.91M£5.90B
7 Day Performance5.76%-1.34%-0.09%1.03%
1 Month Performance-12.71%-2.19%1.89%12.14%
1 Year Performance-23.24%43.73%34.44%73.00%

Franchise Brands Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FRAN
Franchise Brands
N/AGBX 133.56
+1.2%
N/A-24.1%£258.14M£120.55M33.53715Earnings Report
JSG
Johnson Service Group
3.1481 of 5 stars
GBX 139.80
+1.5%
GBX 200
+43.1%
-11.2%£580.10M£495.01M18.636,165Gap Up
RST
Restore
3.7941 of 5 stars
GBX 263
+1.2%
GBX 363.67
+38.3%
+0.9%£353.15M£272.77M92.522,700
DWF
DWF Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£340.61M£451.64M2,490.004,340
RWS
RWS
2.7741 of 5 stars
GBX 87.79
-0.1%
GBX 240
+173.4%
-51.5%£323.78M£707.82M-8.737,040Dividend Increase
DLAR
De La Rue
N/AGBX 130
flat
N/AN/A£251.69M£307.43M-12.541,841
KEYS
Keystone Law Group
N/AGBX 623.50
+0.7%
N/A-5.9%£199.01M£94.56M25.2476Gap Down
BEG
Begbies Traynor Group
1.9772 of 5 stars
GBX 120.50
-0.4%
GBX 152.33
+26.4%
+22.5%£191.87M£137.32M131.291,051Dividend Cut
KGH
Knights Group
N/AGBX 171.50
-0.6%
N/A+35.4%£146.66M£143.94M14.901,353
INSE
Inspired
N/AGBX 80.43
-0.1%
N/A+5.3%£128.40M£155.87M73.651,600News Coverage
SFT
Software Circle
N/AGBX 28.20
-1.1%
N/AN/A£110.00M£16.16M-2,820.00131

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