ALFA vs. CER, BIG, NCC, ATG, LTG, PBEE, IDOX, DOTD, ACSO, and TRCS
Should you be buying Alfa Financial Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alfa Financial Software include Cerillion (CER), Big Technologies (BIG), NCC Group (NCC), Auction Technology Group (ATG), Learning Technologies Group (LTG), PensionBee Group (PBEE), IDOX (IDOX), dotdigital Group (DOTD), accesso Technology Group (ACSO), and Tracsis (TRCS). These companies are all part of the "software - application" industry.
Alfa Financial Software (LON:ALFA) and Cerillion (LON:CER) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Alfa Financial Software has a beta of 0.09, suggesting that its stock price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cerillion has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
34.8% of Alfa Financial Software shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.3% of Cerillion shares are held by institutional investors. 63.5% of Alfa Financial Software shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.7% of Cerillion shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alfa Financial Software pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Cerillion pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Alfa Financial Software pays out 1,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cerillion pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Cerillion received 41 more outperform votes than Alfa Financial Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.98% of users gave Cerillion an outperform vote while only 63.16% of users gave Alfa Financial Software an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cerillion had 12 more articles in the media than Alfa Financial Software. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Cerillion and 0 mentions for Alfa Financial Software. Alfa Financial Software's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Cerillion's score of 0.35 indicating that Alfa Financial Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cerillion has a consensus target price of GBX 1,680, suggesting a potential upside of 9.45%. Given Cerillion's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cerillion is more favorable than Alfa Financial Software.
Cerillion has a net margin of 33.01% compared to Alfa Financial Software's net margin of 23.04%. Alfa Financial Software's return on equity of 55.95% beat Cerillion's return on equity.
Alfa Financial Software has higher revenue and earnings than Cerillion. Alfa Financial Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cerillion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cerillion beats Alfa Financial Software on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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