Howden Joinery Group (HWDN) Competitors

Diploma (LON:DPLM) and Howden Joinery Group (LON:HWDN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in DPLM or HWDN?

81.5% of Diploma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of Howden Joinery Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Diploma shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Howden Joinery Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate DPLM or HWDN?

Diploma currently has a consensus target price of GBX 4,555, suggesting a potential upside of 5.83%. Howden Joinery Group has a consensus target price of GBX 951.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.37%. Given Howden Joinery Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Howden Joinery Group is more favorable than Diploma.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Diploma	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60
Howden Joinery Group	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Is DPLM or HWDN more profitable?

Howden Joinery Group has a net margin of 10.82% compared to Diploma's net margin of 9.25%. Howden Joinery Group's return on equity of 27.75% beat Diploma's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Diploma	9.25%	13.39%	8.32%
Howden Joinery Group	10.82%	27.75%	10.70%

Does the media prefer DPLM or HWDN?

In the previous week, Diploma had 1 more articles in the media than Howden Joinery Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Diploma and 0 mentions for Howden Joinery Group. Diploma's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Howden Joinery Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Diploma is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Diploma	Positive
Howden Joinery Group	Neutral

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, DPLM or HWDN?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Diploma	£1.26B	4.58	£116.10M	£0.86	5,004.65
Howden Joinery Group	£2.35B	1.85	£254.40M	£0.46	1,718.48

Is DPLM or HWDN a better dividend stock?

Diploma pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Howden Joinery Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Diploma pays out 6,627.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. Howden Joinery Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor DPLM or HWDN?

Howden Joinery Group received 386 more outperform votes than Diploma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.37% of users gave Howden Joinery Group an outperform vote while only 61.84% of users gave Diploma an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Diploma	Outperform Votes 282 61.84%	Underperform Votes 174 38.16%
Howden Joinery Group	Outperform Votes 668 72.37%	Underperform Votes 255 27.63%

Which has more risk & volatility, DPLM or HWDN?

Diploma has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howden Joinery Group has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Howden Joinery Group beats Diploma on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.