EBQ vs. SYS1, CAU, NAH, TMG, SBDS, DNM, PEBB, EMAN, BOOM, and NWOR
Should you be buying Ebiquity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ebiquity include System1 Group (SYS1), Centaur Media (CAU), NAHL Group (NAH), The Mission Group (TMG), Silver Bullet Data Services Group (SBDS), Dianomi (DNM), The Pebble Group (PEBB), Everyman Media Group (EMAN), Audioboom Group (BOOM), and National World (NWOR). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
System1 Group (LON:SYS1) and Ebiquity (LON:EBQ) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
System1 Group has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ebiquity has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
39.0% of System1 Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Ebiquity shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.0% of System1 Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of Ebiquity shares are owned 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.
System1 Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ebiquity. Ebiquity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than System1 Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, System1 Group had 1 more articles in the media than Ebiquity. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for System1 Group and 0 mentions for Ebiquity. Ebiquity's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat System1 Group's score of 0.00 indicating that System1 Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
System1 Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ebiquity pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. System1 Group pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ebiquity pays out -3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ebiquity is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ebiquity received 117 more outperform votes than System1 Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.27% of users gave Ebiquity an outperform vote while only 64.25% of users gave System1 Group an outperform vote.
System1 Group has a net margin of 4.73% compared to System1 Group's net margin of -4.37%. Ebiquity's return on equity of 13.88% beat System1 Group's return on equity.
System1 Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 615, indicating a potential upside of 25.51%. Given Ebiquity's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe System1 Group is more favorable than Ebiquity.
Summary
System1 Group beats Ebiquity on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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