SSPG vs. GRG, GNK, MAB, DOM, EIG, JDW, RTN, YNGA, LGRS, and DPEU
Should you be buying SSP Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SSP Group include Greggs (GRG), Greene King (GNK), Mitchells & Butlers (MAB), Domino's Pizza Group (DOM), Ei Group plc (EIG.L) (EIG), J D Wetherspoon (JDW), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (YNGA), Loungers (LGRS), and DP Eurasia (DPEU). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
SSP Group (LON:SSPG) and Greggs (LON:GRG) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
SSP Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 305, indicating a potential upside of 83.40%. Greggs has a consensus target price of GBX 3,375, indicating a potential upside of 14.80%. Given SSP Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SSP Group is more favorable than Greggs.
SSP Group has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greggs has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.1% of SSP Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Greggs shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of SSP Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Greggs 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.
In the previous week, SSP Group had 2 more articles in the media than Greggs. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for SSP Group and 2 mentions for Greggs. Greggs' average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat SSP Group's score of -0.41 indicating that Greggs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greggs has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SSP Group. Greggs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SSP Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Greggs has a net margin of 7.87% compared to SSP Group's net margin of 0.24%. Greggs' return on equity of 29.17% beat SSP Group's return on equity.
SSP Group received 93 more outperform votes than Greggs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.58% of users gave SSP Group an outperform vote while only 64.14% of users gave Greggs an outperform vote.
SSP Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Greggs pays an annual dividend of GBX 62 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. SSP Group pays out 20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Greggs pays out 4,460.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Greggs is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Greggs beats SSP Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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