BIG vs. NCC, CER, PBEE, ALFA, ACSO, IDOX, DOTD, IQG, TRCS, and ATG
Should you be buying Big Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Big Technologies include NCC Group (NCC), Cerillion (CER), PensionBee Group (PBEE), Alfa Financial Software (ALFA), accesso Technology Group (ACSO), IDOX (IDOX), dotdigital Group (DOTD), IQGeo Group (IQG), Tracsis (TRCS), and Auction Technology Group (ATG). These companies are all part of the "software - application" industry.
Big Technologies (LON:BIG) and NCC Group (LON:NCC) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Big Technologies currently has a consensus target price of GBX 345, indicating a potential upside of 142.11%. NCC Group has a consensus target price of GBX 150, indicating a potential upside of 11.11%. Given Big Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Big Technologies is more favorable than NCC Group.
Big Technologies has a net margin of 31.84% compared to NCC Group's net margin of -4.39%. Big Technologies' return on equity of 15.41% beat NCC Group's return on equity.
NCC Group received 511 more outperform votes than Big Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Big Technologies an outperform vote while only 80.06% of users gave NCC Group an outperform vote.
Big Technologies has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NCC Group has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
38.5% of Big Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.4% of NCC Group shares are held by institutional investors. 49.8% of Big Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of NCC Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Big Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NCC Group. NCC Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Big Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Big Technologies had 24 more articles in the media than NCC Group. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Big Technologies and 5 mentions for NCC Group. Big Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat NCC Group's score of 0.04 indicating that Big Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Big Technologies beats NCC Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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