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Eleco (ELCO) Competitors

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GBX 154 -0.50 (-0.32%)
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ELCO vs. NCC, IMO, IQG, BIG, DOTD, IDOX, ACSO, NET, APTD, and GHT

Should you be buying Eleco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eleco include NCC Group (NCC), IMImobile (IMO), IQGeo Group (IQG), Big Technologies (BIG), dotdigital Group (DOTD), IDOX (IDOX), accesso Technology Group (ACSO), Netcall (NET), Aptitude Software Group (APTD), and Gresham Technologies (GHT). These companies are all part of the "software - application" industry.

Eleco vs.

Eleco (LON:ELCO) and NCC Group (LON:NCC) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, earnings and community ranking.

Eleco has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NCC Group has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, NCC Group had 6 more articles in the media than Eleco. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for NCC Group and 0 mentions for Eleco. NCC Group's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Eleco's score of 0.00 indicating that NCC Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Eleco Neutral
NCC Group Neutral

30.3% of Eleco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of NCC Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of Eleco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of NCC Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Eleco currently has a consensus price target of GBX 176, indicating a potential upside of 14.29%. Given Eleco's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Eleco is more favorable than NCC Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Eleco
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
NCC Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Eleco pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. NCC Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Eleco pays out 28.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NCC Group pays out -63.0% 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. NCC Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

NCC Group received 419 more outperform votes than Eleco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.12% of users gave NCC Group an outperform vote while only 51.60% of users gave Eleco an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ElecoOutperform Votes
97
51.60%
Underperform Votes
91
48.40%
NCC GroupOutperform Votes
516
80.12%
Underperform Votes
128
19.88%

Eleco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NCC Group. NCC Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eleco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Eleco£31.11M4.12£2.94M£3.5343.59
NCC Group£326.70M1.52-£25.08M-£7.94-19.85

Eleco has a net margin of 9.46% compared to NCC Group's net margin of -7.68%. Eleco's return on equity of 10.50% beat NCC Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Eleco9.46% 10.50% 5.32%
NCC Group -7.68%-9.97%2.68%

Summary

Eleco beats NCC Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ELCO vs. The Competition

MetricElecoSoftware IndustryComputer SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£128.30M£5.32B£24.85B£2.61B
Dividend Yield0.60%3.20%2.90%5.05%
P/E Ratio43.5928.2944.19134.24
Price / Sales4.12274.492,082.55216,714.40
Price / Cash5.3816.6334.7828.03
Price / Book4.529.716.653.79
Net Income£2.94M£63.43M£739.31M£5.88B
7 Day Performance1.99%-1.40%-1.57%-0.06%
1 Month Performance29.41%10.36%10.75%20.96%
1 Year Performance45.28%10.13%52,751.29%129.21%

Eleco Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ELCO
Eleco
N/AGBX 154
-0.3%
GBX 176
+14.3%
+44.8%£128.30M£31.11M43.59255High Trading Volume
NCC
NCC Group
N/AGBX 156.20
+0.9%
N/A+14.3%£492.46M£326.70M-19.672,200Dividend Cut
IMO
IMImobile
N/AN/AN/AN/A£490.40M£164.04M123.755,300
IQG
IQGeo Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£295.50M£44.48M-20,700.00217
BIG
Big Technologies
N/AGBX 103.06
+0.1%
N/A-33.1%£292.74M£53.85M23.0836,200Trending News
Earnings Report
Insider Trade
DOTD
dotdigital Group
3.1158 of 5 stars
GBX 89.63
-1.3%
GBX 150
+67.4%
-12.7%£273.93M£78.69M24.74400News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Increase
IDOX
IDOX
1.7073 of 5 stars
GBX 56.66
+0.8%
GBX 85.50
+50.9%
-14.2%£259.12M£81.51M46.77626News Coverage
ACSO
accesso Technology Group
N/AGBX 482
-0.6%
N/A-34.5%£240.28M£188.60M28.13672
NET
Netcall
1.4362 of 5 stars
GBX 113.66
-0.3%
GBX 130
+14.4%
+23.5%£187.87M£39.16M32.013,220
APTD
Aptitude Software Group
2.8101 of 5 stars
GBX 298.90
+1.0%
GBX 470
+57.2%
-18.8%£165.81M£69.26M35.40452Positive News
GHT
Gresham Technologies
N/AN/AN/AN/A£136.21M£49.01M4,062.50216High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:ELCO) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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