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Directa Plus (DCTA) Competitors

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DCTA vs. HAYD, WCH, ITX, HDD, BIOM, ZED, ESKN, VRS, AGM, and CRDA

Should you be buying Directa Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Directa Plus include Haydale Graphene Industries (HAYD), Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) (WCH), Itaconix (ITX), Hardide (HDD), Biome Technologies (BIOM), Zenova Group (ZED), Esken (ESKN), Versarien (VRS), Applied Graphene Materials (AGM), and Croda International (CRDA). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.

Directa Plus vs. Its Competitors

Haydale Graphene Industries (LON:HAYD) and Directa Plus (LON:DCTA) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Haydale Graphene Industries has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Directa Plus has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Haydale Graphene Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Directa Plus. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Haydale Graphene Industries and 0 mentions for Directa Plus. Haydale Graphene Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Directa Plus' score of 0.00 indicating that Haydale Graphene Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Haydale Graphene Industries Positive
Directa Plus Neutral

Directa Plus has higher revenue and earnings than Haydale Graphene Industries. Directa Plus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Haydale Graphene Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Haydale Graphene Industries£3.61M7.79-£18.01M-£0.00-196.97
Directa Plus£7.17M1.31-£9.74M-£0.04-225.00

Directa Plus has a net margin of -48.00% compared to Haydale Graphene Industries' net margin of -126.76%. Directa Plus' return on equity of -82.37% beat Haydale Graphene Industries' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Haydale Graphene Industries-126.76% -96.62% -20.66%
Directa Plus -48.00%-82.37%-22.41%

2.3% of Haydale Graphene Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.1% of Directa Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of Haydale Graphene Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of Directa Plus shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Haydale Graphene Industries beats Directa Plus on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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DCTA vs. The Competition

MetricDirecta PlusSpecialty Chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£9.40M£7.44B£3.77B£2.60B
Dividend YieldN/A3.47%5.05%5.29%
P/E Ratio-225.00641.91158.534,449.24
Price / Sales1.3197.7223,172.5699,975.35
Price / Cash7.5119.2524.3627.90
Price / Book1.012.897.078.35
Net Income-£9.74M£220.83M£149.02M£5.89B
7 Day Performance-16.20%2.01%3.02%0.99%
1 Month Performance-18.18%1.53%12.62%6.24%
1 Year Performance-21.74%-4.53%55.78%158.61%

Directa Plus Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DCTA
Directa Plus
N/AGBX 9
-5.3%
N/A-17.4%£9.40M£7.17M-225.00187Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HAYD
Haydale Graphene Industries
N/AGBX 0.60
+9.1%
N/AN/A£25.94M£3.61M-181.8267Gap Up
WCH
Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£20.13MN/A-5.003
ITX
Itaconix
1.3453 of 5 stars
GBX 105
-4.5%
GBX 325
+209.5%
-20.8%£14.16M£8.55M-760.8717
HDD
Hardide
N/AGBX 6.65
-1.6%
N/A+13.1%£5.24M£5.42M-1,661.2546Gap Up
High Trading Volume
BIOM
Biome Technologies
N/AGBX 9.50
-4.8%
N/A+58.3%£4.90M£5.75M-27.9427
ZED
Zenova Group
N/AGBX 0.21
flat
N/AN/A£762K£100K-27.3311
ESKN
Esken
N/AN/AN/AN/A£714K£114.53M-0.88678Gap Down
VRS
Versarien
N/AGBX 0.01
-8.3%
N/A-80.0%£661K£2.42M-3.3370Gap Down
AGM
Applied Graphene Materials
N/AN/AN/AN/A£643K£127K-20.00160Gap Down
CRDA
Croda International
2.4168 of 5 stars
GBX 2,871
+1.2%
GBX 3,087.50
+7.5%
-33.2%£4.01B£1.67B1,864.295,852News Coverage
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This page (LON:DCTA) was last updated on 10/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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