MARS vs. JDW, RTN, LGRS, YNGA, DPEU, FSTA, CPC, YNGN, DPP, and FUL
Should you be buying Marston's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marston's include J D Wetherspoon (JDW), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Loungers (LGRS), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGA), DP Eurasia (DPEU), Fuller, Smith & Turner (FSTA), 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.
Marston's vs.
J D Wetherspoon (LON:JDW) and Marston's (LON:MARS) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
70.0% of J D Wetherspoon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Marston's shares are held by institutional investors. 31.3% of J D Wetherspoon shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Marston's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
J D Wetherspoon presently has a consensus target price of GBX 674, suggesting a potential upside of 10.58%. Given J D Wetherspoon's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe J D Wetherspoon is more favorable than Marston's.
J D Wetherspoon pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Marston's pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.6%. J D Wetherspoon pays out 3,076.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Marston's pays out -26,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marston's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Marston's received 315 more outperform votes than J D Wetherspoon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.20% of users gave Marston's an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave J D Wetherspoon an outperform vote.
J D Wetherspoon has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marston's has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
J D Wetherspoon has higher revenue and earnings than Marston's. Marston's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J D Wetherspoon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Marston's had 1 more articles in the media than J D Wetherspoon. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Marston's and 1 mentions for J D Wetherspoon. Marston's' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat J D Wetherspoon's score of 0.47 indicating that Marston's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
J D Wetherspoon has a net margin of 2.40% compared to Marston's' net margin of -1.91%. J D Wetherspoon's return on equity of 11.98% beat Marston's' return on equity.
Summary
J D Wetherspoon beats Marston's on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MARS) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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