DCTA vs. IOF, WCH, ITX, HDD, HAYD, ZED, VRS, BIOM, ESKN, and AGM
Should you be buying Directa Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Directa Plus include Iofina (IOF), Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) (WCH), Itaconix (ITX), Hardide (HDD), Haydale Graphene Industries (HAYD), Zenova Group (ZED), Versarien (VRS), Biome Technologies (BIOM), Esken (ESKN), and Applied Graphene Materials (AGM). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
Directa Plus (LON:DCTA) and Iofina (LON:IOF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.
In the previous week, Iofina had 1 more articles in the media than Directa Plus. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Iofina and 0 mentions for Directa Plus. Directa Plus' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Iofina'saverage media sentiment score.
17.9% of Directa Plus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.4% of Iofina shares are held by institutional investors. 77.1% of Directa Plus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 44.2% of Iofina shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Iofina received 92 more outperform votes than Directa Plus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.55% of users gave Directa Plus an outperform vote while only 66.21% of users gave Iofina an outperform vote.
Iofina has higher revenue and earnings than Directa Plus. Directa Plus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iofina, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Iofina has a consensus target price of GBX 35, suggesting a potential upside of 57.30%. Given Iofina's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Iofina is more favorable than Directa Plus.
Directa Plus has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iofina has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Iofina has a net margin of 13.12% compared to Directa Plus' net margin of -44.70%. Iofina's return on equity of 15.87% beat Directa Plus' return on equity.
Summary
Iofina beats Directa Plus on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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