SHI vs. BRCK, LORD, FLO, BMTO, BMT, SLNG, FERG, DPLM, RS1, and GFTU
Should you be buying SIG stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SIG include Brickability Group (BRCK), Lords Group Trading (LORD), Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), Braime Group (BMTO), Braime Group (BMT), H C Slingsby (SLNG), Ferguson (FERG), Diploma (DPLM), RS Group (RS1), and Grafton Group (GFTU). These companies are all part of the "industrial distribution" industry.
SIG vs.
Brickability Group (LON:BRCK) and SIG (LON:SHI) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Brickability Group has a net margin of 2.59% compared to SIG's net margin of -2.35%. Brickability Group's return on equity of 8.37% beat SIG's return on equity.
SIG has a consensus target price of GBX 1,081.70, suggesting a potential upside of 5,957.57%. Given SIG's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SIG is more favorable than Brickability Group.
44.1% of Brickability Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.0% of SIG shares are held by institutional investors. 38.1% of Brickability Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.3% of SIG shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Brickability Group has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SIG has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SIG received 560 more outperform votes than Brickability Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.91% of users gave Brickability Group an outperform vote while only 56.10% of users gave SIG an outperform vote.
Brickability Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SIG. SIG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brickability Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Brickability Group had 3 more articles in the media than SIG. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Brickability Group and 0 mentions for SIG. Brickability Group's average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat SIG's score of 0.00 indicating that Brickability Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brickability Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. SIG pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 22.4%. Brickability Group pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SIG pays out -8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SIG is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Brickability Group beats SIG on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SHI) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
