IGE vs. PEG, WSG, NWT, PHSC, EQT, SLNG, CMH, SNT, LIFS, and LIB
Should you be buying Image Scan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Image Scan include Petards Group (PEG), Westminster Group (WSG), Newmark Security (NWT), PHSC (PHSC), EQTEC (EQT), H C Slingsby (SLNG), Chamberlin (CMH), Sabien Technology Group (SNT), LifeSafe (LIFS), and Libertine (LIB). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Petards Group (LON:PEG) and Image Scan (LON:IGE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Image Scan received 11 more outperform votes than Petards Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.30% of users gave Image Scan an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Petards Group an outperform vote.
9.6% of Petards Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.7% of Image Scan shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.2% of Petards Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 83.8% of Image Scan shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Petards Group has a net margin of 1.25% compared to Petards Group's net margin of -0.43%. Image Scan's return on equity of 1.55% beat Petards Group's return on equity.
Petards Group has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Image Scan has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Image Scan had 2 more articles in the media than Petards Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Image Scan and 0 mentions for Petards Group. Petards Group's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Image Scan's score of 0.00 indicating that Image Scan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Image Scan beats Petards Group on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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