ULTP vs. DFS, VCP, HEAD, UPGS, CHH, LIKE, CFX, SDG, PMP, and JLH
Should you be buying Ultimate Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ultimate Products include DFS Furniture (DFS), Victoria (VCP), Headlam Group (HEAD), UP Global Sourcing (UPGS), Churchill China (CHH), Likewise Group (LIKE), Colefax Group (CFX), Sanderson Design Group (SDG), Portmeirion Group (PMP), and John Lewis of Hungerford (JLH). These companies are all part of the "furnishings, fixtures & appliances" industry.
Ultimate Products vs.
DFS Furniture (LON:DFS) and Ultimate Products (LON:ULTP) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
81.1% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.5% of Ultimate Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.7% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 56.6% of Ultimate Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ultimate Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DFS Furniture. DFS Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ultimate Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ultimate Products has a net margin of 7.62% compared to DFS Furniture's net margin of -0.45%. Ultimate Products' return on equity of 26.67% beat DFS Furniture's return on equity.
DFS Furniture presently has a consensus target price of GBX 120, indicating a potential downside of 17.24%. Ultimate Products has a consensus target price of GBX 182, indicating a potential upside of 68.52%. Given Ultimate Products' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ultimate Products is more favorable than DFS Furniture.
DFS Furniture received 300 more outperform votes than Ultimate Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.77% of users gave DFS Furniture an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Ultimate Products an outperform vote.
DFS Furniture pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ultimate Products pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. DFS Furniture pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ultimate Products pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
DFS Furniture has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultimate Products has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DFS Furniture had 11 more articles in the media than Ultimate Products. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for DFS Furniture and 0 mentions for Ultimate Products. DFS Furniture's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Ultimate Products' score of 0.00 indicating that DFS Furniture is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ultimate Products beats DFS Furniture on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ULTP) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
