SFOR vs. YOU, NFG, NFC, ASCL, TRS, HNT, NEXN, TRMR, SAA, and PEBB
Should you be buying S4 Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S4 Capital include YouGov (YOU), Next 15 Group (NFG), Next Fifteen Communications Group (NFC), Ascential (ASCL), Tarsus Group (TRS), Huntsworth (HNT), Nexxen International (NEXN), Tremor International (TRMR), M&C Saatchi (SAA), and The Pebble Group (PEBB). These companies are all part of the "advertising agencies" industry.
S4 Capital (LON:SFOR) and YouGov (LON:YOU) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, YouGov had 1 more articles in the media than S4 Capital. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for YouGov and 0 mentions for S4 Capital. S4 Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled YouGov'saverage media sentiment score.
YouGov has a net margin of 8.41% compared to S4 Capital's net margin of -0.59%. YouGov's return on equity of 14.24% beat S4 Capital's return on equity.
S4 Capital currently has a consensus target price of GBX 180, indicating a potential upside of 270.37%. YouGov has a consensus target price of GBX 1,350, indicating a potential upside of 61.48%. Given S4 Capital's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe S4 Capital is more favorable than YouGov.
35.5% of S4 Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.8% of YouGov shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.1% of S4 Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of YouGov shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
S4 Capital has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YouGov has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
YouGov has lower revenue, but higher earnings than S4 Capital. S4 Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YouGov, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
YouGov received 174 more outperform votes than S4 Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.76% of users gave S4 Capital an outperform vote while only 67.27% of users gave YouGov an outperform vote.
Summary
YouGov beats S4 Capital on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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