CCP vs. GROW, BGSC, PRSR, DX, PINE, MGP, SOHO, WPC, LMI, and ARR
Should you be buying Celtic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celtic include Molten Ventures (GROW), BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC), Prs Reit (PRSR), DX (Group) (DX), Pinewood Technologies Group (PINE), Medica Group (MGP), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), Witan Pacific Investment Trust PLC (WPC.L) (WPC), Lonmin (LMI), and Aurora Investment Trust (ARR). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Celtic (LON:CCP) and Molten Ventures (LON:GROW) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Celtic and Celtic both had 2 articles in the media. Molten Ventures' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Celtic's score of 0.05 indicating that Molten Ventures is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
21.2% of Celtic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of Molten Ventures shares are held by institutional investors. 57.4% of Celtic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Molten Ventures 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.
Celtic currently has a consensus price target of GBX 190, indicating a potential downside of 5.00%. Molten Ventures has a consensus price target of GBX 580, indicating a potential upside of 41.46%. Given Molten Ventures' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Molten Ventures is more favorable than Celtic.
Celtic has a net margin of 21.73% compared to Molten Ventures' net margin of 0.00%. Celtic's return on equity of 23.88% beat Molten Ventures' return on equity.
Molten Ventures received 161 more outperform votes than Celtic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.13% of users gave Molten Ventures an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Celtic an outperform vote.
Celtic has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Molten Ventures has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Celtic has higher revenue and earnings than Molten Ventures. Molten Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Celtic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Celtic beats Molten Ventures on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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