Literacy Capital (BOOK) Competitors

NB Private Equity Partners (LON:NBPE) and Literacy Capital (LON:BOOK) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Is NBPE or BOOK more profitable?

Literacy Capital has a net margin of 63.70% compared to NB Private Equity Partners' net margin of -215.03%. Literacy Capital's return on equity of 2.42% beat NB Private Equity Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NB Private Equity Partners	-215.03%	-1.71%	-0.61%
Literacy Capital	63.70%	2.42%	39.07%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of NBPE or BOOK?

53.1% of NB Private Equity Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.8% of Literacy Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of NB Private Equity Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 63.0% of Literacy Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, NBPE or BOOK?

NB Private Equity Partners has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Literacy Capital has a beta of -0.25, suggesting that its share price is 125% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to NBPE or BOOK?

In the previous week, Literacy Capital had 3 more articles in the media than NB Private Equity Partners. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Literacy Capital and 1 mentions for NB Private Equity Partners. Literacy Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat NB Private Equity Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Literacy Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
NB Private Equity Partners	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Literacy Capital	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has better valuation & earnings, NBPE or BOOK?

Literacy Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NB Private Equity Partners. NB Private Equity Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Literacy Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NB Private Equity Partners	£12.90M	64.19	-£27.74M	-£38.13	-37.45
Literacy Capital	£10.97M	21.54	£6.99M	£12.41	32.72

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in NBPE or BOOK?

NB Private Equity Partners received 45 more outperform votes than Literacy Capital when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
NB Private Equity Partners	Outperform Votes 45 59.21%	Underperform Votes 31 40.79%
Literacy Capital	N/A	N/A

Summary

Literacy Capital beats NB Private Equity Partners on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.