CRL vs. TRU, TUNG, STAF, ADT, ULS, FCCN, FA, ROL, ARC, and ADV
Should you be buying Creightons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Creightons include TruFin (TRU), Tungsten (TUNG), Staffline Group (STAF), AdEPT Technology Group (ADT), ULS Technology (ULS), French Connection Group (FCCN), FireAngel Safety Technology Group (FA), Rotala (ROL), Arcontech Group (ARC), and Advance Energy (ADV). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Creightons vs.
TruFin (LON:TRU) and Creightons (LON:CRL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
TruFin has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Creightons has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Creightons had 2 more articles in the media than TruFin. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Creightons and 0 mentions for TruFin. Creightons' average media sentiment score of 2.00 beat TruFin's score of 0.30 indicating that Creightons is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Creightons received 56 more outperform votes than TruFin when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.91% of users gave TruFin an outperform vote while only 63.76% of users gave Creightons an outperform vote.
61.6% of TruFin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.6% of Creightons shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.1% of TruFin shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 48.1% of Creightons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TruFin has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Creightons. Creightons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TruFin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TruFin has a net margin of 7.29% compared to Creightons' net margin of -6.63%. TruFin's return on equity of 6.83% beat Creightons' return on equity.
Summary
TruFin beats Creightons on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:CRL) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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