RCDO vs. ELIX, FNTL, SAG, GTLY, PPHC, AFM, PRV, RWA, XPP, and SHI
Should you be buying Ricardo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ricardo include Elixirr International (ELIX), Fintel (FNTL), Science Group (SAG), Gateley (GTLY), Public Policy (PPHC), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), Porvair (PRV), Robert Walters (RWA), XP Power (XPP), and SIG (SHI). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Elixirr International (LON:ELIX) and Ricardo (LON:RCDO) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Elixirr International has a net margin of 20.07% compared to Elixirr International's net margin of -0.13%. Ricardo's return on equity of 16.00% beat Elixirr International's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ricardo's average media sentiment score of 0.59 equaled Elixirr International'saverage media sentiment score.
Elixirr International has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ricardo has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ricardo received 258 more outperform votes than Elixirr International when rated by MarketBeat users.
26.7% of Elixirr International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Ricardo shares are owned by institutional investors. 49.3% of Elixirr International shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Ricardo shares are owned 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.
Elixirr International pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Ricardo pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Elixirr International pays out 4,705.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ricardo pays out -120,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Elixirr International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ricardo. Ricardo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elixirr International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Elixirr International beats Ricardo on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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