CCP vs. TMO, EMAN, SNWS, STVG, DEVO, PEBB, LBG, FDEV, CAU, and SYS1
Should you be buying Celtic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celtic include Time Out Group (TMO), Everyman Media Group (EMAN), Smiths News (SNWS), STV Group (STVG), Devolver Digital (DEVO), The Pebble Group (PEBB), LBG Media (LBG), Frontier Developments (FDEV), Centaur Media (CAU), and System1 Group (SYS1). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Time Out Group (LON:TMO) and Celtic (LON:CCP) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Celtic has a consensus target price of GBX 190, indicating a potential upside of 40.74%. Given Time Out Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Celtic is more favorable than Time Out Group.
Time Out Group received 146 more outperform votes than Celtic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.91% of users gave Time Out Group an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Celtic an outperform vote.
Celtic has higher revenue and earnings than Time Out Group. Time Out Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Celtic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
42.8% of Time Out Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.4% of Celtic shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.6% of Time Out Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.5% of Celtic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Time Out Group had 6 more articles in the media than Celtic. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Time Out Group and 0 mentions for Celtic. Celtic's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Time Out Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Time Out Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Celtic has a net margin of 21.73% compared to Celtic's net margin of -17.66%. Time Out Group's return on equity of 23.88% beat Celtic's return on equity.
Time Out Group has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celtic has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Celtic beats Time Out Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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