KGH vs. RWS, DWF, RST, FRAN, DLAR, CPI, KEYS, BEG, SFT, and INSE
Should you be buying Knights Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Knights Group include RWS (RWS), DWF Group (DWF), Restore (RST), Franchise Brands (FRAN), De La Rue (DLAR), Capita (CPI), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Software Circle (SFT), and Inspired (INSE). These companies are all part of the "specialty business services" industry.
Knights Group vs.
RWS (LON:RWS) and Knights Group (LON:KGH) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
Knights Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RWS. RWS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knights Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RWS pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. Knights Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. RWS pays out -119.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Knights Group pays out 34.7% 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. RWS is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
RWS presently has a consensus target price of GBX 330, suggesting a potential upside of 189.98%. Given RWS's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe RWS is more favorable than Knights Group.
RWS has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Knights Group has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Knights Group has a net margin of 6.82% compared to RWS's net margin of -5.22%. Knights Group's return on equity of 10.03% beat RWS's return on equity.
69.3% of RWS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.8% of Knights Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.2% of RWS shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.1% of Knights Group 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.
In the previous week, RWS's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Knights Group's score of 0.00 indicating that RWS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RWS received 168 more outperform votes than Knights Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.63% of users gave RWS an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave Knights Group an outperform vote.
Summary
RWS beats Knights Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:KGH) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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