NXR vs. GEN, TYMN, JHD, COD, SUR, SRAD, ECEL, KGP, EPWN, and ALU
Should you be buying Norcros stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Norcros include Genuit Group (GEN), Tyman (TYMN), James Halstead (JHD), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Sureserve Group (SUR), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Eurocell (ECEL), Kingspan Group (KGP), Epwin Group (EPWN), and The Alumasc Group (ALU). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Norcros vs.
Genuit Group (LON:GEN) and Norcros (LON:NXR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Genuit Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 512.50, indicating a potential upside of 41.18%. Norcros has a consensus target price of GBX 338.33, indicating a potential upside of 39.81%. Given Genuit Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Genuit Group is more favorable than Norcros.
82.1% of Genuit Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.2% of Norcros shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Genuit Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Norcros shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Genuit Group has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norcros has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Norcros had 1 more articles in the media than Genuit Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Norcros and 0 mentions for Genuit Group. Norcros' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Genuit Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Norcros is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Norcros has a net margin of 6.84% compared to Genuit Group's net margin of 4.26%. Norcros' return on equity of 12.38% beat Genuit Group's return on equity.
Norcros has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Genuit Group. Norcros is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genuit Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Norcros received 239 more outperform votes than Genuit Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.18% of users gave Genuit Group an outperform vote while only 86.39% of users gave Norcros an outperform vote.
Genuit Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Norcros pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Genuit Group pays out 12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Norcros pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Norcros is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Norcros beats Genuit Group on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:NXR) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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