IOM vs. SEE, BKS, BGO, WNWD, CNS, FNX, PCIP, PAY, WPS, and BOKU
Should you be buying iomart Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iomart Group include Seeing Machines (SEE), Beeks Financial Cloud Group (BKS), Bango (BGO), Windward (WNWD), Corero Network Security (CNS), Fonix Mobile (FNX), PCI-PAL (PCIP), PayPoint (PAY), W.A.G payment solutions (WPS), and Boku (BOKU). These companies are all part of the "software - infrastructure" industry.
iomart Group (LON:IOM) and Seeing Machines (LON:SEE) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
iomart Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 185, suggesting a potential upside of 43.41%. Seeing Machines has a consensus target price of GBX 11, suggesting a potential upside of 156.71%. Given Seeing Machines' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Seeing Machines is more favorable than iomart Group.
iomart Group received 134 more outperform votes than Seeing Machines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.58% of users gave iomart Group an outperform vote while only 54.04% of users gave Seeing Machines an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Seeing Machines had 15 more articles in the media than iomart Group. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Seeing Machines and 1 mentions for iomart Group. iomart Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Seeing Machines' score of -0.08 indicating that iomart Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
60.5% of iomart Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.0% of Seeing Machines shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.2% of iomart Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.4% of Seeing Machines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
iomart Group has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seeing Machines has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
iomart Group has a net margin of 5.27% compared to Seeing Machines' net margin of -51.98%. iomart Group's return on equity of 5.46% beat Seeing Machines' return on equity.
iomart Group has higher revenue and earnings than Seeing Machines. Seeing Machines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iomart Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
iomart Group beats Seeing Machines on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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