AHT vs. AGK, BWO, REDD, NTG, VP, ASY, AA4, SDY, AVAP, and ANX
Should you be buying Ashtead Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashtead Group include Aggreko (AGK), Barloworld (BWO), Redde Northgate (REDD), Northgate (NTG), VP (VP), Andrews Sykes Group (ASY), Amedeo Air Four Plus (AA4), Speedy Hire (SDY), Avation (AVAP), and Anexo Group (ANX). These companies are all part of the "rental & leasing services" industry.
Aggreko (LON:AGK) and Ashtead Group (LON:AHT) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Ashtead Group has a net margin of 15.17% compared to Ashtead Group's net margin of 0.00%. Aggreko's return on equity of 25.67% beat Ashtead Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ashtead Group had 1 more articles in the media than Aggreko. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ashtead Group and 0 mentions for Aggreko. Aggreko's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Ashtead Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Ashtead Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ashtead Group received 440 more outperform votes than Aggreko when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.26% of users gave Ashtead Group an outperform vote while only 48.21% of users gave Aggreko an outperform vote.
Ashtead Group has higher revenue and earnings than Aggreko. Aggreko is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ashtead Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.3% of Ashtead Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Ashtead Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Aggreko pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Ashtead Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Aggreko pays out -0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ashtead Group pays out 2,749.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Ashtead Group has a consensus target price of GBX 4,970.63, indicating a potential downside of 12.61%. Given Aggreko's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ashtead Group is more favorable than Aggreko.
Summary
Ashtead Group beats Aggreko on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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