RM (RM) Competitors

RM (LON:RM) and DFS Furniture (LON:DFS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in RM or DFS?

63.5% of RM shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.1% of RM shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has better valuation & earnings, RM or DFS?

DFS Furniture has higher revenue and earnings than RM. DFS Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
RM	£189.50M	0.45	-£47.32M	-£55.02	-1.85
DFS Furniture	£964.48M	0.32	-£4.30M	-£1.87	-72.29

Do analysts rate RM or DFS?

DFS Furniture has a consensus target price of GBX 185, indicating a potential upside of 37.04%. Given DFS Furniture's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe DFS Furniture is more favorable than RM.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
RM	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
DFS Furniture	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has more risk & volatility, RM or DFS?

RM has a beta of 2.19, indicating that its share price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DFS Furniture has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is RM or DFS a better dividend stock?

RM pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. DFS Furniture pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. RM pays out -14.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DFS Furniture pays out -214.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Does the media favor RM or DFS?

In the previous week, RM had 6 more articles in the media than DFS Furniture. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for RM and 3 mentions for DFS Furniture. DFS Furniture's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat RM's score of -0.23 indicating that DFS Furniture is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
RM	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
DFS Furniture	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer RM or DFS?

DFS Furniture received 58 more outperform votes than RM when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.67% of users gave RM an outperform vote while only 72.84% of users gave DFS Furniture an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
RM	Outperform Votes 245 81.67%	Underperform Votes 55 18.33%
DFS Furniture	Outperform Votes 303 72.84%	Underperform Votes 113 27.16%

Is RM or DFS more profitable?

DFS Furniture has a net margin of -0.45% compared to RM's net margin of -24.97%. DFS Furniture's return on equity of -1.90% beat RM's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
RM	-24.97%	-311.10%	-1.51%
DFS Furniture	-0.45%	-1.90%	3.00%

Summary

DFS Furniture beats RM on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.