MCB vs. DFS, SHG, FIF, RM, IES, SBSI, CFX, PFC, OFG, and FCAP
Should you be buying McBride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McBride include DFS Furniture (DFS), Shanta Gold (SHG), Finsbury Food Group (FIF), RM (RM), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI), Colefax Group (CFX), Petrofac (PFC), Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG), and Cavendish Financial (FCAP). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
McBride vs.
McBride (LON:MCB) and DFS Furniture (LON:DFS) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
McBride has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DFS Furniture. DFS Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McBride, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
McBride has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DFS Furniture has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
72.7% of McBride shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of McBride shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, McBride had 2 more articles in the media than DFS Furniture. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for McBride and 9 mentions for DFS Furniture. McBride's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat DFS Furniture's score of 0.32 indicating that McBride is being referred to more favorably in the media.
McBride pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. DFS Furniture pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. McBride pays out 526.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. DFS Furniture pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DFS Furniture is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
McBride has a net margin of 3.56% compared to DFS Furniture's net margin of -0.45%. McBride's return on equity of 66.27% beat DFS Furniture's return on equity.
DFS Furniture has a consensus target price of GBX 120, indicating a potential downside of 17.24%. Given DFS Furniture's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe DFS Furniture is more favorable than McBride.
McBride received 168 more outperform votes than DFS Furniture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.18% of users gave McBride an outperform vote while only 72.77% of users gave DFS Furniture an outperform vote.
Summary
McBride and DFS Furniture tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MCB) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
