VLX vs. CLSN, SMS, TFW, CWR, XPP, LUCE, AFC, SUP, DIA, and DWHT
Should you be buying Volex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Volex include Calisen (CLSN), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), FW Thorpe (TFW), Ceres Power (CWR), XP Power (XPP), Luceco (LUCE), AFC Energy (AFC), Supreme (SUP), Dialight (DIA), and Dewhurst Group (DWHT). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment & parts" industry.
Volex (LON:VLX) and Calisen (LON:CLSN) are both small-cap industrials 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.
Volex has higher revenue and earnings than Calisen. Calisen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Volex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
40.1% of Volex shares are held by institutional investors. 34.0% of Volex shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Volex currently has a consensus target price of GBX 420, indicating a potential upside of 19.49%. Given Volex's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Volex is more favorable than Calisen.
In the previous week, Volex had 2 more articles in the media than Calisen. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Volex and 0 mentions for Calisen. Volex's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Calisen's score of 0.00 indicating that Volex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Volex has a net margin of 4.67% compared to Calisen's net margin of 0.00%. Volex's return on equity of 14.16% beat Calisen's return on equity.
Volex received 225 more outperform votes than Calisen when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.91% of users gave Calisen an outperform vote while only 75.56% of users gave Volex an outperform vote.
Summary
Volex beats Calisen on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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