COST vs. BIG, BOOT, BMPI, POL, AZO, JD, PAG, PETS, RNWH, and KIE
Should you be buying Costain Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Costain Group include Big Technologies (BIG), Henry Boot (BOOT), BMO Managed Portfolio Trust PLC - Income Shares (BMPI), Polo Resources (POL), Azonto Petroleum (AZO), JD Sports Fashion (JD), Paragon Banking Group (PAG), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Renew (RNWH), and Kier Group (KIE).
Big Technologies (LON:BIG) and Costain Group (LON:COST) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
38.9% of Big Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.0% of Costain Group shares are held by institutional investors. 49.8% of Big Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of Costain Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Big Technologies has a net margin of 31.84% compared to Big Technologies' net margin of 1.66%. Costain Group's return on equity of 15.41% beat Big Technologies' return on equity.
Costain Group received 460 more outperform votes than Big Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Big Technologies an outperform vote while only 84.18% of users gave Costain Group an outperform vote.
Costain Group has higher revenue and earnings than Big Technologies. Costain Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Big Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Big Technologies had 29 more articles in the media than Costain Group. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Big Technologies and 4 mentions for Costain Group. Big Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Costain Group's score of 0.11 indicating that Costain Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Big Technologies currently has a consensus target price of GBX 345, suggesting a potential upside of 155.56%. Given Costain Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Big Technologies is more favorable than Costain Group.
Big Technologies has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Costain Group has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Big Technologies beats Costain Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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