SYS1 vs. EBQ, CAU, NAH, TMG, PEBB, SBDS, SAA, EMAN, FDEV, and BOOM
Should you be buying System1 Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of System1 Group include Ebiquity (EBQ), Centaur Media (CAU), NAHL Group (NAH), The Mission Group (TMG), The Pebble Group (PEBB), Silver Bullet Data Services Group (SBDS), M&C Saatchi (SAA), Everyman Media Group (EMAN), Frontier Developments (FDEV), and Audioboom Group (BOOM). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
System1 Group (LON:SYS1) and Ebiquity (LON:EBQ) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
System1 Group has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ebiquity has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
System1 Group has a net margin of 4.73% compared to Ebiquity's net margin of -4.37%. System1 Group's return on equity of 13.88% beat Ebiquity's return on equity.
System1 Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 615, suggesting a potential upside of 19.19%. Given System1 Group's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe System1 Group is more favorable than Ebiquity.
System1 Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ebiquity. Ebiquity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than System1 Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
38.9% of System1 Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Ebiquity shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.4% of System1 Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of Ebiquity 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.
In the previous week, Ebiquity had 1 more articles in the media than System1 Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ebiquity and 0 mentions for System1 Group. System1 Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ebiquity'saverage media sentiment score.
System1 Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ebiquity pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. System1 Group pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ebiquity pays out -3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ebiquity is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ebiquity received 118 more outperform votes than System1 Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.36% of users gave Ebiquity an outperform vote while only 64.25% of users gave System1 Group an outperform vote.
Summary
System1 Group beats Ebiquity on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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