TC vs. MDF, PAY, HAI, CVO, CPLF, SYZ, QTRH, ALYA, ESP, and VCM
Should you be buying Tucows stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tucows include mdf commerce (MDF), Payfare (PAY), Haivision Systems (HAI), Coveo Solutions (CVO), Copperleaf Technologies (CPLF), Sylogist (SYZ), Quarterhill (QTRH), Alithya Group (ALYA), Brompton Energy Split (ESP), and Vecima Networks (VCM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Tucows (TSE:TC) and mdf commerce (TSE:MDF) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability and analyst recommendations.
mdf commerce received 70 more outperform votes than Tucows when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.60% of users gave Tucows an outperform vote while only 48.51% of users gave mdf commerce an outperform vote.
79.4% of Tucows shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.1% of mdf commerce shares are held by institutional investors. 8.8% of Tucows shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of mdf commerce shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
mdf commerce has a consensus target price of C$4.50, indicating a potential downside of 22.01%. Given mdf commerce's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe mdf commerce is more favorable than Tucows.
mdf commerce has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tucows. mdf commerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tucows, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
mdf commerce has a net margin of -11.43% compared to Tucows' net margin of -28.35%. mdf commerce's return on equity of -5.70% beat Tucows' return on equity.
Tucows has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, mdf commerce has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, mdf commerce had 2 more articles in the media than Tucows. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for mdf commerce and 2 mentions for Tucows. mdf commerce's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Tucows' score of 0.53 indicating that mdf commerce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
mdf commerce beats Tucows on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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