BOKU vs. WPS, PAY, FNX, SEE, IOM, SPT, BYIT, ALFA, CER, and MIDW
Should you be buying Boku stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Boku include W.A.G payment solutions (WPS), PayPoint (PAY), Fonix Mobile (FNX), Seeing Machines (SEE), iomart Group (IOM), Spirent Communications (SPT), Bytes Technology Group (BYIT), Alfa Financial Software (ALFA), Cerillion (CER), and Midwich Group (MIDW). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
W.A.G payment solutions (LON:WPS) and Boku (LON:BOKU) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, Boku had 6 more articles in the media than W.A.G payment solutions. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Boku and 0 mentions for W.A.G payment solutions. W.A.G payment solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Boku's score of 0.00 indicating that Boku is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Boku has lower revenue, but higher earnings than W.A.G payment solutions. W.A.G payment solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boku, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Boku has a net margin of 12.19% compared to Boku's net margin of -2.19%. W.A.G payment solutions' return on equity of 8.23% beat Boku's return on equity.
Boku has a consensus target price of GBX 210, suggesting a potential upside of 16.31%. Given W.A.G payment solutions' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Boku is more favorable than W.A.G payment solutions.
40.6% of W.A.G payment solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Boku shares are held by institutional investors. 47.8% of W.A.G payment solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Boku shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Boku received 130 more outperform votes than W.A.G payment solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave W.A.G payment solutions an outperform vote while only 74.01% of users gave Boku an outperform vote.
Summary
Boku beats W.A.G payment solutions on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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