CAU vs. SAA, SFOR, PEBB, TMMG, SYS1, TMG, NAH, EBQ, DNM, and GVMH
Should you be buying Centaur Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centaur Media include M&C Saatchi (SAA), S4 Capital (SFOR), The Pebble Group (PEBB), The Mission Marketing Group (TMMG), System1 Group (SYS1), The Mission Group (TMG), NAHL Group (NAH), Ebiquity (EBQ), Dianomi (DNM), and Grand Vision Media (GVMH). These companies are all part of the "advertising agencies" industry.
Centaur Media vs. Its Competitors
M&C Saatchi (LON:SAA) and Centaur Media (LON:CAU) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
M&C Saatchi presently has a consensus price target of GBX 201.67, suggesting a potential upside of 41.03%. Given M&C Saatchi's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe M&C Saatchi is more favorable than Centaur Media.
Centaur Media has a net margin of 11.76% compared to M&C Saatchi's net margin of 2.43%. M&C Saatchi's return on equity of 34.45% beat Centaur Media's return on equity.
M&C Saatchi has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centaur Media has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
M&C Saatchi pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Centaur Media pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. M&C Saatchi pays out 24.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Centaur Media pays out -24.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Centaur Media is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, M&C Saatchi had 6 more articles in the media than Centaur Media. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for M&C Saatchi and 0 mentions for Centaur Media. Centaur Media's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat M&C Saatchi's score of 0.15 indicating that Centaur Media is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
18.2% of M&C Saatchi shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.5% of Centaur Media shares are held by institutional investors. 31.2% of M&C Saatchi shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of Centaur Media shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
M&C Saatchi has higher revenue and earnings than Centaur Media. Centaur Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M&C Saatchi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
M&C Saatchi beats Centaur Media on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:CAU) was last updated on 10/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
