NXT vs. ICG, GFS, SPI, RTN, ESP, APH, IPF, SGM, BERI, and MSI
Should you be buying NEXT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NEXT include Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), G4S (GFS), Spire Healthcare Group (SPI), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Empiric Student Property (ESP), Alliance Pharma (APH), International Personal Finance (IPF), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), and MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
NEXT vs.
Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICG) and NEXT (LON:NXT) are both manufacturing companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of NEXT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of NEXT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, NEXT had 11 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for NEXT and 2 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. NEXT's average media sentiment score of 0.02 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that NEXT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 79 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. NEXT pays an annual dividend of GBX 216 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 4,937.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NEXT pays out 3,287.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NEXT has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intermediate Capital Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,734.75, suggesting a potential upside of 28.39%. Given Intermediate Capital Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Intermediate Capital Group is more favorable than NEXT.
Intermediate Capital Group has a net margin of 52.33% compared to NEXT's net margin of 13.77%. NEXT's return on equity of 62.53% beat Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity.
NEXT has higher revenue and earnings than Intermediate Capital Group. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NEXT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NEXT received 554 more outperform votes than Intermediate Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 50.13% of users gave NEXT an outperform vote.
Summary
NEXT beats Intermediate Capital Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:NXT) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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