CTA vs. TRT, CAR, ADF, VARE, LIKE, AURR, PMP, HRN, PODP, and CFX
Should you be buying CT Automotive Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CT Automotive Group include Transense Technologies (TRT), Carclo (CAR), Facilities by ADF (ADF), Various Eateries (VARE), Likewise Group (LIKE), Aurrigo International (AURR), Portmeirion Group (PMP), Hornby (HRN), Pod Point Group (PODP), and Colefax Group (CFX). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Transense Technologies (LON:TRT) and CT Automotive Group (LON:CTA) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Transense Technologies has a net margin of 45.10% compared to Transense Technologies' net margin of -11.33%. CT Automotive Group's return on equity of 40.43% beat Transense Technologies' return on equity.
Transense Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CT Automotive Group. CT Automotive Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Transense Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Transense Technologies has a beta of 0.31, meaning that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CT Automotive Group has a beta of 0.02, meaning that its share price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Transense Technologies received 102 more outperform votes than CT Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, CT Automotive Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Transense Technologies'average media sentiment score.
31.0% of Transense Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.6% of CT Automotive Group shares are held by institutional investors. 22.3% of Transense Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 45.2% of CT Automotive Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Transense Technologies beats CT Automotive Group on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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