JHD vs. TPK, FAN, GEN, TYMN, SUR, NXR, SRAD, ECEL, KGP, and ALU
Should you be buying James Halstead stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of James Halstead include Travis Perkins (TPK), Volution Group (FAN), Genuit Group (GEN), Tyman (TYMN), Sureserve Group (SUR), Norcros (NXR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Eurocell (ECEL), Kingspan Group (KGP), and The Alumasc Group (ALU). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
James Halstead vs.
James Halstead (LON:JHD) and Travis Perkins (LON:TPK) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
13.6% of James Halstead shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.2% of Travis Perkins shares are owned by institutional investors. 49.1% of James Halstead shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Travis Perkins shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
James Halstead has a beta of 0.31, meaning that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Travis Perkins has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, James Halstead had 1 more articles in the media than Travis Perkins. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for James Halstead and 0 mentions for Travis Perkins. Travis Perkins' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat James Halstead's score of -0.98 indicating that Travis Perkins is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Travis Perkins has a consensus target price of GBX 912.50, indicating a potential upside of 38.78%. Given Travis Perkins' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Travis Perkins is more favorable than James Halstead.
James Halstead has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Travis Perkins. Travis Perkins is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than James Halstead, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
James Halstead pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Travis Perkins pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. James Halstead pays out 90.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Travis Perkins pays out -133.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
James Halstead has a net margin of 15.10% compared to Travis Perkins' net margin of -0.37%. James Halstead's return on equity of 23.72% beat Travis Perkins' return on equity.
Travis Perkins received 730 more outperform votes than James Halstead when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.51% of users gave James Halstead an outperform vote while only 72.20% of users gave Travis Perkins an outperform vote.
Summary
James Halstead beats Travis Perkins on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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This page (LON:JHD) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
