LGRS vs. JDW, RTN, YNGA, DPEU, FSTA, MARS, CPC, YNGN, DPP, and FUL
Should you be buying Loungers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Loungers include J D Wetherspoon (JDW), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGA), DP Eurasia (DPEU), Fuller, Smith & Turner (FSTA), Marston's (MARS), The City Pub Group (CPC), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGN), DP Poland (DPP), and Fulham Shore (FUL). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Loungers vs.
J D Wetherspoon (LON:JDW) and Loungers (LON:LGRS) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and media sentiment.
Loungers has a net margin of 2.58% compared to J D Wetherspoon's net margin of 2.40%. J D Wetherspoon's return on equity of 11.98% beat Loungers' return on equity.
J D Wetherspoon received 239 more outperform votes than Loungers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.50% of users gave Loungers an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave J D Wetherspoon an outperform vote.
70.0% of J D Wetherspoon shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of Loungers shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.3% of J D Wetherspoon shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of Loungers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
J D Wetherspoon has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Loungers has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, J D Wetherspoon had 3 more articles in the media than Loungers. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for J D Wetherspoon and 1 mentions for Loungers. Loungers' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat J D Wetherspoon's score of -0.34 indicating that Loungers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
J D Wetherspoon presently has a consensus target price of GBX 674, indicating a potential upside of 11.50%. Loungers has a consensus target price of GBX 370, indicating a potential upside of 45.10%. Given Loungers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Loungers is more favorable than J D Wetherspoon.
J D Wetherspoon has higher revenue and earnings than Loungers. J D Wetherspoon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Loungers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
J D Wetherspoon and Loungers tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:LGRS) was last updated on 11/4/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
