DIA vs. LUCE, XPP, SUP, CWR, AFC, IKA, DWHA, DWHT, GELN, and EAAS
Should you be buying Dialight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dialight include Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Supreme (SUP), Ceres Power (CWR), AFC Energy (AFC), Ilika (IKA), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Gelion (GELN), and eEnergy Group (EAAS). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment & parts" industry.
Dialight vs. Its Competitors
Luceco (LON:LUCE) and Dialight (LON:DIA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
Luceco has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dialight has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
23.7% of Luceco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Dialight shares are held by institutional investors. 57.8% of Luceco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Dialight shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Dialight had 1 more articles in the media than Luceco. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Dialight and 1 mentions for Luceco. Luceco's average media sentiment score of 0.75 equaled Dialight'saverage media sentiment score.
Luceco has higher revenue and earnings than Dialight. Dialight is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Luceco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Luceco has a net margin of 8.41% compared to Dialight's net margin of -14.38%. Luceco's return on equity of 19.86% beat Dialight's return on equity.
Luceco pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Dialight pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Luceco pays out 42.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dialight pays out -34.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Dialight is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Luceco beats Dialight on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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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This page (LON:DIA) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
