IKA vs. PPS, DWHT, DWHA, GELN, EAAS, DIA, DGI, AFC, SUP, and STAF
Should you be buying Ilika stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ilika include Proton Motor Power Systems (PPS), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), Gelion (GELN), eEnergy Group (EAAS), Dialight (DIA), DG Innovate (DGI), AFC Energy (AFC), Supreme (SUP), and Staffline Group (STAF). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Ilika (LON:IKA) and Proton Motor Power Systems (LON:PPS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Ilika presently has a consensus price target of GBX 100, indicating a potential upside of 238.98%. Given Ilika's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ilika is more favorable than Proton Motor Power Systems.
In the previous week, Ilika had 1 more articles in the media than Proton Motor Power Systems. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ilika and 0 mentions for Proton Motor Power Systems. Ilika's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Proton Motor Power Systems' score of 0.28 indicating that Ilika is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ilika received 119 more outperform votes than Proton Motor Power Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.89% of users gave Proton Motor Power Systems an outperform vote while only 68.96% of users gave Ilika an outperform vote.
50.1% of Ilika shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Ilika shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 84.1% of Proton Motor Power Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Proton Motor Power Systems' return on equity of 0.00% beat Ilika's return on equity.
Ilika has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Proton Motor Power Systems. Ilika is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Proton Motor Power Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ilika has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Proton Motor Power Systems has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ilika beats Proton Motor Power Systems on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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