CAU vs. SYS1, EBQ, PEBB, NAH, TMG, SAA, SFOR, FDEV, EMAN, and DEVO
Should you be buying Centaur Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centaur Media include System1 Group (SYS1), Ebiquity (EBQ), The Pebble Group (PEBB), NAHL Group (NAH), The Mission Group (TMG), M&C Saatchi (SAA), S4 Capital (SFOR), Frontier Developments (FDEV), Everyman Media Group (EMAN), and Devolver Digital (DEVO). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
System1 Group (LON:SYS1) 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 risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
38.9% of System1 Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Centaur Media shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.4% of System1 Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Centaur Media shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
System1 Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 615, suggesting a potential upside of 26.80%. Given Centaur Media's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe System1 Group is more favorable than Centaur Media.
System1 Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Centaur Media pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. 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. Centaur Media pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Centaur Media is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Centaur Media has a net margin of 12.99% compared to Centaur Media's net margin of 4.73%. Centaur Media's return on equity of 13.88% beat System1 Group's return on equity.
System1 Group has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centaur Media has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Centaur Media had 3 more articles in the media than System1 Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Centaur Media and 0 mentions for System1 Group. System1 Group's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Centaur Media's score of 0.00 indicating that Centaur Media is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Centaur Media has higher revenue and earnings than System1 Group. Centaur Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than System1 Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Centaur Media received 326 more outperform votes than System1 Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.56% of users gave Centaur Media an outperform vote while only 64.25% of users gave System1 Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Centaur Media beats System1 Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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