MKS vs. ALY, IHG, NXT, SKG, JD, BKG, WTB, TW, SMDS, and HWDN
Should you be buying Marks and Spencer Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marks and Spencer Group include Laura Ashley (ALY), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), NEXT (NXT), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), JD Sports Fashion (JD), The Berkeley Group (BKG), Whitbread (WTB), Taylor Wimpey (TW), DS Smith (SMDS), and Howden Joinery Group (HWDN).
Laura Ashley (LON:ALY) and Marks and Spencer Group (LON:MKS) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.
51.2% of Marks and Spencer Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Marks and Spencer Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Marks and Spencer Group has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Marks and Spencer Group's net margin of 0.00%. Laura Ashley's return on equity of 13.81% beat Marks and Spencer Group's return on equity.
Marks and Spencer Group has higher revenue and earnings than Laura Ashley. Laura Ashley is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marks and Spencer Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marks and Spencer Group has a consensus price target of GBX 322.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.57%. Given Laura Ashley's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Marks and Spencer Group is more favorable than Laura Ashley.
In the previous week, Laura Ashley and Laura Ashley both had 1 articles in the media. Laura Ashley's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Marks and Spencer Group's score of 0.67 indicating that Marks and Spencer Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marks and Spencer Group received 952 more outperform votes than Laura Ashley when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.10% of users gave Laura Ashley an outperform vote while only 56.29% of users gave Marks and Spencer Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Marks and Spencer Group beats Laura Ashley on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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