HSS vs. AVAP, SDY, ANX, OPM, DPA, AHT, AGK, BWO, REDD, and ZIG
Should you be buying HSS Hire Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HSS Hire Group include Avation (AVAP), Speedy Hire (SDY), Anexo Group (ANX), 1pm plc (OPM.L) (OPM), DP Aircraft I (DPA), Ashtead Group (AHT), Aggreko (AGK), Barloworld (BWO), Redde Northgate (REDD), and Zigup (ZIG). These companies are all part of the "rental & leasing services" industry.
HSS Hire Group vs.
HSS Hire Group (LON:HSS) and Avation (LON:AVAP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Avation received 24 more outperform votes than HSS Hire Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.30% of users gave Avation an outperform vote while only 58.61% of users gave HSS Hire Group an outperform vote.
41.3% of HSS Hire Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of Avation shares are held by institutional investors. 41.6% of HSS Hire Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.3% of Avation shares are held by 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.
Avation has a net margin of 21.36% compared to HSS Hire Group's net margin of -1.03%. Avation's return on equity of 8.11% beat HSS Hire Group's return on equity.
HSS Hire Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.9%. Avation pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. HSS Hire Group pays out -301.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avation pays out 36.3% 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. HSS Hire Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Avation has a consensus target price of GBX 270, indicating a potential upside of 88.81%. Given Avation's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Avation is more favorable than HSS Hire Group.
In the previous week, Avation had 3 more articles in the media than HSS Hire Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Avation and 0 mentions for HSS Hire Group. HSS Hire Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Avation'saverage media sentiment score.
HSS Hire Group has a beta of 0.27, suggesting that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avation has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Avation has lower revenue, but higher earnings than HSS Hire Group. HSS Hire Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Avation beats HSS Hire Group on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:HSS) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
