SPI vs. RTN, ESP, APH, IPF, SGM, MSI, BERI, MCP, AMAT, and STM
Should you be buying Spire Healthcare Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spire Healthcare Group include The Restaurant Group (RTN), Empiric Student Property (ESP), Alliance Pharma (APH), International Personal Finance (IPF), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and STM Group (STM). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
Spire Healthcare Group vs.
The Restaurant Group (LON:RTN) and Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Spire Healthcare Group has a net margin of 1.96% compared to The Restaurant Group's net margin of -4.74%. Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity of 4.00% beat The Restaurant Group's return on equity.
Spire Healthcare Group has a consensus target price of GBX 322, indicating a potential upside of 37.25%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Spire Healthcare Group is more favorable than The Restaurant Group.
In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group had 3 more articles in the media than The Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group and 0 mentions for The Restaurant Group. Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat The Restaurant Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Spire Healthcare Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.3% of The Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of The Restaurant Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
The Restaurant Group has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
The Restaurant Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share. Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. The Restaurant Group pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Spire Healthcare Group has higher revenue and earnings than The Restaurant Group. The Restaurant Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Healthcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Restaurant Group received 246 more outperform votes than Spire Healthcare Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.68% of users gave The Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 60.89% of users gave Spire Healthcare Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Spire Healthcare Group beats The Restaurant Group on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SPI) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
