CTG vs. APP, SLE, SST, VNET, SMRT, ADAM, INTU, INFA, API, and TEAM
Should you be buying Christie Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Christie Group include Appreciate Group (APP), San Leon Energy (SLE), Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (SST), Vianet Group (VNET), Smartspace Software (SMRT), Jade Road Investments (ADAM), Intu Properties (INTU), InfraStrata (INFA), abrdn Property Income Trust (API), and TEAM (TEAM). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Christie Group vs. Its Competitors
Appreciate Group (LON:APP) and Christie Group (LON:CTG) are both small-cap computer software companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Appreciate Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share. Christie Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Appreciate Group 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. Christie Group pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Christie Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Christie Group had 1 more articles in the media than Appreciate Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Christie Group and 0 mentions for Appreciate Group. Christie Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Appreciate Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Christie Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Appreciate Group has higher revenue and earnings than Christie Group. Christie Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Appreciate Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Appreciate Group has a net margin of 4.77% compared to Christie Group's net margin of -4.87%. Appreciate Group's return on equity of 42.06% beat Christie Group's return on equity.
76.8% of Appreciate Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Christie Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of Appreciate Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 83.4% of Christie Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Appreciate Group has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Christie Group has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Appreciate Group beats Christie Group on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:CTG) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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