ULTP vs. DFS, VCP, UPGS, HEAD, CHH, SDG, CFX, LIKE, 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), UP Global Sourcing (UPGS), Headlam Group (HEAD), Churchill China (CHH), Sanderson Design Group (SDG), Colefax Group (CFX), Likewise Group (LIKE), 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 stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
81.1% of DFS Furniture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.5% of Ultimate Products shares are held by institutional investors. 11.7% of DFS Furniture shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 56.6% of Ultimate Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
DFS Furniture received 300 more outperform votes than Ultimate Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.95% of users gave DFS Furniture an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Ultimate Products an outperform vote.
In the previous week, DFS Furniture had 1 more articles in the media than Ultimate Products. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for DFS Furniture and 3 mentions for Ultimate Products. Ultimate Products' average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat DFS Furniture's score of 0.39 indicating that Ultimate Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DFS Furniture currently has a consensus target price of GBX 120, suggesting a potential downside of 11.11%. Ultimate Products has a consensus target price of GBX 182, suggesting a potential upside of 40.27%. Given Ultimate Products' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ultimate Products is more favorable than DFS Furniture.
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 has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultimate Products has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DFS Furniture pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Ultimate Products pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. 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.
Summary
Ultimate Products beats DFS Furniture on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ULTP) was last updated on 11/5/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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