BIG vs. CER, NCC, ALFA, IDOX, DOTD, PBEE, TRCS, IQG, ACSO, and GBG
Should you be buying Big Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Big Technologies include Cerillion (CER), NCC Group (NCC), Alfa Financial Software (ALFA), IDOX (IDOX), dotdigital Group (DOTD), PensionBee Group (PBEE), Tracsis (TRCS), IQGeo Group (IQG), accesso Technology Group (ACSO), and GB Group (GBG). These companies are all part of the "software - application" industry.
Cerillion (LON:CER) and Big Technologies (LON:BIG) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Cerillion has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Big Technologies has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cerillion currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,616.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.14%. Big Technologies has a consensus price target of GBX 345, indicating a potential upside of 116.98%. Given Cerillion's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Big Technologies is more favorable than Cerillion.
45.6% of Cerillion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.1% of Big Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 33.7% of Cerillion shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.8% of Big Technologies shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Big Technologies had 30 more articles in the media than Cerillion. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Big Technologies and 2 mentions for Cerillion. Cerillion's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat Big Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Big Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Big Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Cerillion. Big Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cerillion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cerillion has a net margin of 33.01% compared to Cerillion's net margin of 31.84%. Big Technologies' return on equity of 40.65% beat Cerillion's return on equity.
Cerillion received 156 more outperform votes than Big Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Big Technologies an outperform vote while only 65.70% of users gave Cerillion an outperform vote.
Summary
Cerillion beats Big Technologies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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