GLE vs. MCS, CRST, ABBY, TEF, SPR, WJG, GLV, BTRW, BDEV, and TW
Should you be buying MJ Gleeson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MJ Gleeson include McCarthy & Stone (MCS), Crest Nicholson (CRST), Abbey (ABBY), Telford Homes (TEF), Springfield Properties (SPR), Watkin Jones (WJG), Glenveagh Properties (GLV), Barratt Redrow (BTRW), Barratt Developments (BDEV), and Taylor Wimpey (TW). These companies are all part of the "residential construction" industry.
MJ Gleeson vs.
McCarthy & Stone (LON:MCS) and MJ Gleeson (LON:GLE) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
MJ Gleeson has a consensus target price of GBX 643, indicating a potential upside of 30.69%. Given MJ Gleeson's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MJ Gleeson is more favorable than McCarthy & Stone.
McCarthy & Stone received 10 more outperform votes than MJ Gleeson when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.08% of users gave McCarthy & Stone an outperform vote while only 69.46% of users gave MJ Gleeson an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MJ Gleeson had 3 more articles in the media than McCarthy & Stone. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MJ Gleeson and 0 mentions for McCarthy & Stone. MJ Gleeson's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat McCarthy & Stone's score of 0.00 indicating that MJ Gleeson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
McCarthy & Stone pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.05 per share. MJ Gleeson pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. McCarthy & Stone pays out 0.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MJ Gleeson pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
MJ Gleeson has lower revenue, but higher earnings than McCarthy & Stone. McCarthy & Stone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MJ Gleeson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.6% of MJ Gleeson shares are held by institutional investors. 16.9% of MJ Gleeson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MJ Gleeson has a net margin of 5.59% compared to McCarthy & Stone's net margin of 0.00%. MJ Gleeson's return on equity of 6.61% beat McCarthy & Stone's return on equity.
Summary
MJ Gleeson beats McCarthy & Stone on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:GLE) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
