INSE vs. SFT, WATR, KGH, MIND, VNET, CTG, BEG, DLAR, KEYS, and CPI
Should you be buying Inspired stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Inspired include Software Circle (SFT), Water Intelligence (WATR), Knights Group (KGH), Mind Gym (MIND), Vianet Group (VNET), Christie Group (CTG), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), De La Rue (DLAR), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), and Capita (CPI). These companies are all part of the "specialty business services" industry.
Inspired (LON:INSE) and Software Circle (LON:SFT) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and profitability.
Software Circle has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Inspired. Inspired is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Software Circle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Inspired pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Software Circle pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Inspired pays out -4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Software Circle pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Software Circle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Inspired's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Software Circle'saverage media sentiment score.
Inspired has a net margin of -7.25% compared to Software Circle's net margin of -16.76%. Inspired's return on equity of -12.36% beat Software Circle's return on equity.
Inspired has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Software Circle has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
79.5% of Inspired shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Software Circle shares are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of Inspired shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 76.3% of Software Circle shares are held by company 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.
Inspired received 202 more outperform votes than Software Circle when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Inspired and Software Circle tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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