HWDN vs. DFS, VCP, HEAD, ULTP, CHH, UPGS, SDG, CFX, LIKE, and PMP
Should you be buying Howden Joinery Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Howden Joinery Group include DFS Furniture (DFS), Victoria (VCP), Headlam Group (HEAD), Ultimate Products (ULTP), Churchill China (CHH), UP Global Sourcing (UPGS), Sanderson Design Group (SDG), Colefax Group (CFX), Likewise Group (LIKE), and Portmeirion Group (PMP). These companies are all part of the "furnishings, fixtures & appliances" industry.
DFS Furniture (LON:DFS) and Howden Joinery Group (LON:HWDN) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.
80.8% of DFS Furniture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of Howden Joinery Group shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of DFS Furniture shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Howden Joinery Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
DFS Furniture has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howden Joinery Group has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Howden Joinery Group received 365 more outperform votes than DFS Furniture when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.88% of users gave DFS Furniture an outperform vote while only 72.39% of users gave Howden Joinery Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, DFS Furniture had 2 more articles in the media than Howden Joinery Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for DFS Furniture and 1 mentions for Howden Joinery Group. DFS Furniture's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Howden Joinery Group's score of 0.39 indicating that Howden Joinery Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DFS Furniture pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Howden Joinery Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. DFS Furniture pays out 5,000.0% 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 has a net margin of 11.02% compared to Howden Joinery Group's net margin of 2.07%. DFS Furniture's return on equity of 27.52% beat Howden Joinery Group's return on equity.
DFS Furniture presently has a consensus price target of GBX 120, indicating a potential upside of 6.95%. Howden Joinery Group has a consensus price target of GBX 856.43, indicating a potential downside of 5.63%. Given Howden Joinery Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe DFS Furniture is more favorable than Howden Joinery Group.
Howden Joinery Group has higher revenue and earnings than DFS Furniture. DFS Furniture 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.
Summary
Howden Joinery Group beats DFS Furniture on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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