ECK vs. KBT, TRD, TPX, RCN, KCT, FDP, FDM, GHT, BKS, and SPSY
Should you be buying Eckoh stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eckoh include K3 Business Technology Group (KBT), Triad Group (TRD), TPXimpact (TPX), Redcentric (RCN), Kin and Carta (KCT), FD Technologies (FDP), FDM Group (FDM), Gresham Technologies (GHT), Beeks Financial Cloud Group (BKS), and Spectra Systems (SPSY). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
K3 Business Technology Group (LON:KBT) and Eckoh (LON:ECK) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
Eckoh has lower revenue, but higher earnings than K3 Business Technology Group. K3 Business Technology Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eckoh, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
K3 Business Technology Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Eckoh pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. K3 Business Technology Group pays out -1,818.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eckoh pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Eckoh has a net margin of 9.61% compared to Eckoh's net margin of -8.53%. K3 Business Technology Group's return on equity of 8.56% beat Eckoh's return on equity.
Eckoh received 49 more outperform votes than K3 Business Technology Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.96% of users gave Eckoh an outperform vote while only 53.10% of users gave K3 Business Technology Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, K3 Business Technology Group had 1 more articles in the media than Eckoh. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for K3 Business Technology Group and 1 mentions for Eckoh. K3 Business Technology Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Eckoh's score of 0.00 indicating that Eckoh is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
K3 Business Technology Group has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eckoh has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
54.8% of K3 Business Technology Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Eckoh shares are held by institutional investors. 36.0% of K3 Business Technology Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.7% of Eckoh shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Eckoh beats K3 Business Technology Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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