ELCO vs. CLBS, AOM, ACC, SPA, IGP, RM, SPSY, CRTA, TRB, and ZOO
Should you be buying Eleco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eleco include Celebrus Technologies (CLBS), ActiveOps (AOM), Access Intelligence (ACC), 1Spatial (SPA), Intercede Group (IGP), RM (RM), Spectra Systems (SPSY), Cirata (CRTA), Tribal Group (TRB), and ZOO Digital Group (ZOO). These companies are all part of the "software - application" industry.
Celebrus Technologies (LON:CLBS) and Eleco (LON:ELCO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
57.9% of Celebrus Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.0% of Eleco shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.9% of Celebrus Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 52.4% of Eleco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Celebrus Technologies presently has a consensus target price of GBX 330, suggesting a potential upside of 59.63%. Given Eleco's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Celebrus Technologies is more favorable than Eleco.
Eleco received 93 more outperform votes than Celebrus Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Celebrus Technologies an outperform vote while only 51.34% of users gave Eleco an outperform vote.
Celebrus Technologies has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eleco has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Celebrus Technologies pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Eleco pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Eleco pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Celebrus Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Eleco.
In the previous week, Eleco had 1 more articles in the media than Celebrus Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Eleco and 1 mentions for Celebrus Technologies. Celebrus Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Eleco's score of 0.67 indicating that Eleco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Celebrus Technologies has a net margin of 14.21% compared to Celebrus Technologies' net margin of 9.48%. Eleco's return on equity of 13.17% beat Celebrus Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Celebrus Technologies beats Eleco on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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