RCH vs. DMGT, DODS, BMY, LBG, SNWS, CNCT, QRT, HYNS, XLM, and QRTR
Should you be buying Reach stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Reach include Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), Dods Group (DODS), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), LBG Media (LBG), Smiths News (SNWS), Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT), The Quarto Group (QRT), Haynes Publishing Group (HYNS), XLMedia (XLM), and The Quarto Group (QRTR). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.
Daily Mail and General Trust (LON:DMGT) and Reach (LON:RCH) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
Reach has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Daily Mail and General Trust. Daily Mail and General Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Reach, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Daily Mail and General Trust received 455 more outperform votes than Reach when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Reach an outperform vote while only 66.45% of users gave Daily Mail and General Trust an outperform vote.
77.0% of Reach shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Reach 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.
Reach has a consensus target price of GBX 75, suggesting a potential downside of 7.18%.
Daily Mail and General Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.24 per share. Reach pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Daily Mail and General Trust pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Reach pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Daily Mail and General Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Reach. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Daily Mail and General Trust and 1 mentions for Reach. Reach's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Daily Mail and General Trust's score of 0.34 indicating that Daily Mail and General Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Reach has a net margin of 3.78% compared to Reach's net margin of 0.00%. Daily Mail and General Trust's return on equity of 3.37% beat Reach's return on equity.
Summary
Reach beats Daily Mail and General Trust on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Reach News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for RCH and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RCH and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip ChartThis chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Skip Chart
Related Companies and Tools