VCP vs. DFS, UPGS, HEAD, ULTP, CHH, CFX, LIKE, SDG, PMP, and JLH
Should you be buying Victoria stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Victoria include DFS Furniture (DFS), UP Global Sourcing (UPGS), Headlam Group (HEAD), Ultimate Products (ULTP), Churchill China (CHH), Colefax Group (CFX), Likewise Group (LIKE), Sanderson Design Group (SDG), Portmeirion Group (PMP), and John Lewis of Hungerford (JLH). These companies are all part of the "furnishings, fixtures & appliances" industry.
Victoria vs.
Victoria (LON:VCP) and DFS Furniture (LON:DFS) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
DFS Furniture received 55 more outperform votes than Victoria when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.84% of users gave DFS Furniture an outperform vote while only 60.05% of users gave Victoria an outperform vote.
DFS Furniture has a net margin of -0.45% compared to Victoria's net margin of -8.48%. DFS Furniture's return on equity of -1.90% beat Victoria's return on equity.
Victoria currently has a consensus target price of GBX 170, indicating a potential upside of 90.11%. DFS Furniture has a consensus target price of GBX 185, indicating a potential upside of 36.41%. Given Victoria's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Victoria is more favorable than DFS Furniture.
In the previous week, DFS Furniture had 2 more articles in the media than Victoria. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for DFS Furniture and 1 mentions for Victoria. Victoria's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat DFS Furniture's score of 0.28 indicating that Victoria is being referred to more favorably in the media.
45.1% of Victoria shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of DFS Furniture shares are held by institutional investors. 35.4% of Victoria shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of DFS Furniture shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Victoria has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DFS Furniture has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DFS Furniture has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Victoria. DFS Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Victoria, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
DFS Furniture beats Victoria on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:VCP) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
