SDY vs. NTG, VP, ASY, AA4, AVAP, ANX, HSS, OPM, DPA, and AHT
Should you be buying Speedy Hire stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Speedy Hire include Northgate (NTG), VP (VP), Andrews Sykes Group (ASY), Amedeo Air Four Plus (AA4), Avation (AVAP), Anexo Group (ANX), HSS Hire Group (HSS), 1pm plc (OPM.L) (OPM), DP Aircraft I (DPA), and Ashtead Group (AHT). These companies are all part of the "rental & leasing services" industry.
Speedy Hire vs.
Speedy Hire (LON:SDY) and Northgate (LON:NTG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Speedy Hire has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Northgate. Northgate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Speedy Hire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
81.0% of Speedy Hire shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of Speedy Hire shares are owned by 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.
Speedy Hire received 42 more outperform votes than Northgate when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.09% of users gave Northgate an outperform vote while only 77.02% of users gave Speedy Hire an outperform vote.
Speedy Hire has a net margin of 0.64% compared to Northgate's net margin of 0.00%. Speedy Hire's return on equity of 1.50% beat Northgate's return on equity.
In the previous week, Speedy Hire's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Northgate'saverage media sentiment score.
Speedy Hire pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.6%. Northgate pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.18 per share. Speedy Hire pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Northgate pays out 0.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Speedy Hire currently has a consensus target price of GBX 70, indicating a potential upside of 148.23%. Given Speedy Hire's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Speedy Hire is more favorable than Northgate.
Summary
Speedy Hire beats Northgate on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SDY) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
