SAA vs. SFOR, NEXN, PEBB, CAU, SYS1, NFG, RCH, CCPC, TMO, and LBG
Should you be buying M&C Saatchi stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M&C Saatchi include S4 Capital (SFOR), Nexxen International (NEXN), The Pebble Group (PEBB), Centaur Media (CAU), System1 Group (SYS1), Next 15 Group (NFG), Reach (RCH), Celtic (CCPC), Time Out Group (TMO), and LBG Media (LBG). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
S4 Capital (LON:SFOR) and M&C Saatchi (LON:SAA) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
36.3% of S4 Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.9% of M&C Saatchi shares are held by institutional investors. 19.8% of S4 Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of M&C Saatchi shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
S4 Capital has a net margin of -0.59% compared to S4 Capital's net margin of -0.78%. M&C Saatchi's return on equity of -0.70% beat S4 Capital's return on equity.
S4 Capital presently has a consensus price target of GBX 180, suggesting a potential upside of 280.55%. Given M&C Saatchi's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe S4 Capital is more favorable than M&C Saatchi.
S4 Capital has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M&C Saatchi has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
M&C Saatchi received 115 more outperform votes than S4 Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.76% of users gave S4 Capital an outperform vote while only 69.66% of users gave M&C Saatchi an outperform vote.
M&C Saatchi has lower revenue, but higher earnings than S4 Capital. M&C Saatchi is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S4 Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, M&C Saatchi had 2 more articles in the media than S4 Capital. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for M&C Saatchi and 0 mentions for S4 Capital. S4 Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat M&C Saatchi's score of 0.00 indicating that M&C Saatchi is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
M&C Saatchi beats S4 Capital on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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