LUCE vs. CWR, XPP, SUP, AFC, TFW, VLX, GFRD, ELIX, RWA, and ASY
Should you be buying Luceco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luceco include Ceres Power (CWR), XP Power (XPP), Supreme (SUP), AFC Energy (AFC), FW Thorpe (TFW), Volex (VLX), Galliford Try (GFRD), Elixirr International (ELIX), Robert Walters (RWA), and Andrews Sykes Group (ASY). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Luceco (LON:LUCE) and Ceres Power (LON:CWR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
Ceres Power has a consensus price target of GBX 700, indicating a potential upside of 357.22%. Given Ceres Power's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ceres Power is more favorable than Luceco.
Luceco has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ceres Power has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Luceco has a net margin of 7.99% compared to Ceres Power's net margin of -206.15%. Luceco's return on equity of 18.50% beat Ceres Power's return on equity.
Ceres Power received 21 more outperform votes than Luceco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.20% of users gave Ceres Power an outperform vote while only 68.42% of users gave Luceco an outperform vote.
Luceco has higher revenue and earnings than Ceres Power. Ceres Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Luceco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Luceco and Luceco both had 2 articles in the media. Ceres Power's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Luceco's score of 0.68 indicating that Ceres Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
28.3% of Luceco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.7% of Ceres Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.8% of Luceco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.7% of Ceres Power shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Luceco and Ceres Power tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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