MRIT vs. TIA, GST, MTEC, CSFS, GRC, MBO, TPX, TRD, KBT, and ARC
Should you be buying Merit Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Merit Group include Tialis Essential IT (TIA), GSTechnologies (GST), Made Tech Group (MTEC), Cornerstone FS (CSFS), GRC International Group (GRC), MobilityOne (MBO), TPXimpact (TPX), Triad Group (TRD), K3 Business Technology Group (KBT), and Arcontech Group (ARC). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Merit Group (LON:MRIT) and Tialis Essential IT (LON:TIA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
18.1% of Merit Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Tialis Essential IT shares are owned by institutional investors. 68.0% of Merit Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.6% of Tialis Essential IT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Merit Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 116, suggesting a potential upside of 78.46%. Given Merit Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Merit Group is more favorable than Tialis Essential IT.
In the previous week, Merit Group had 3 more articles in the media than Tialis Essential IT. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Merit Group and 1 mentions for Tialis Essential IT. Tialis Essential IT's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Merit Group's score of 1.00 indicating that Tialis Essential IT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Merit Group received 2 more outperform votes than Tialis Essential IT when rated by MarketBeat users.
Tialis Essential IT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Merit Group. Tialis Essential IT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Merit Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tialis Essential IT has a net margin of -4.19% compared to Merit Group's net margin of -6.86%. Tialis Essential IT's return on equity of 0.00% beat Merit Group's return on equity.
Summary
Merit Group beats Tialis Essential IT on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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