DIA vs. IKA, PPS, GELN, DWHT, DWHA, EAAS, AFC, SUP, XPP, and INSE
Should you be buying Dialight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dialight include Ilika (IKA), Proton Motor Power Systems (PPS), Gelion (GELN), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), eEnergy Group (EAAS), AFC Energy (AFC), Supreme (SUP), XP Power (XPP), and Inspired (INSE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Ilika (LON:IKA) and Dialight (LON:DIA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
50.6% of Ilika shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Dialight shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Ilika shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Dialight shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ilika presently has a consensus target price of GBX 100, indicating a potential upside of 238.98%. Dialight has a consensus target price of GBX 210, indicating a potential upside of 35.05%. Given Dialight's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ilika is more favorable than Dialight.
In the previous week, Ilika had 2 more articles in the media than Dialight. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ilika and 1 mentions for Dialight. Ilika's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Dialight's score of -0.39 indicating that Dialight is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ilika has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Ilika's net margin of -7.26%. Ilika's return on equity of -16.11% beat Dialight's return on equity.
Ilika has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Dialight. Ilika is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dialight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ilika has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dialight has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ilika received 20 more outperform votes than Dialight when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.96% of users gave Ilika an outperform vote while only 62.99% of users gave Dialight an outperform vote.
Summary
Ilika beats Dialight on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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