LORD vs. SHI, FLO, BMT, BMTO, SLNG, FERG, DPLM, RS1, GFTU, and BRCK
Should you be buying Lords Group Trading stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lords Group Trading include SIG (SHI), Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), Braime Group (BMT), Braime Group (BMTO), H C Slingsby (SLNG), Ferguson (FERG), Diploma (DPLM), RS Group (RS1), Grafton Group (GFTU), and Brickability Group (BRCK). These companies are all part of the "industrial distribution" industry.
Lords Group Trading vs.
SIG (LON:SHI) and Lords Group Trading (LON:LORD) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
SIG presently has a consensus price target of GBX 814.78, suggesting a potential upside of 5,980.41%. Lords Group Trading has a consensus price target of GBX 80, suggesting a potential upside of 192.57%. Given SIG's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SIG is more favorable than Lords Group Trading.
Lords Group Trading has a net margin of -0.40% compared to SIG's net margin of -2.35%. Lords Group Trading's return on equity of -3.69% beat SIG's return on equity.
63.0% of SIG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of Lords Group Trading shares are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of SIG shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 63.2% of Lords Group Trading shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lords Group Trading has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SIG. Lords Group Trading is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SIG, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SIG had 7 more articles in the media than Lords Group Trading. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for SIG and 0 mentions for Lords Group Trading. SIG's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Lords Group Trading's score of 0.00 indicating that SIG is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SIG has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lords Group Trading has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SIG received 558 more outperform votes than Lords Group Trading when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Lords Group Trading an outperform vote while only 56.15% of users gave SIG an outperform vote.
SIG pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 29.9%. Lords Group Trading pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. SIG pays out -75.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lords Group Trading pays out -178.0% 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.
Summary
Lords Group Trading beats SIG on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:LORD) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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