GATC vs. STAF, EMR, RTC, THRU, BMTO, GELN, VNET, FIH, DWHT, and SNX
Should you be buying Gattaca stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gattaca include Staffline Group (STAF), Empresaria Group (EMR), RTC Group (RTC), Thruvision Group (THRU), Braime Group (BMTO), Gelion (GELN), Vianet Group (VNET), FIH group (FIH), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), and Synectics (SNX). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Gattaca (LON:GATC) and Staffline Group (LON:STAF) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Staffline Group received 164 more outperform votes than Gattaca when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.51% of users gave Staffline Group an outperform vote while only 67.89% of users gave Gattaca an outperform vote.
Gattaca has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Staffline Group. Staffline Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gattaca, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gattaca has a beta of 2.07, suggesting that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Staffline Group has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
11.7% of Gattaca shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.0% of Staffline Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 65.8% of Gattaca shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.3% of Staffline Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gattaca has a net margin of 0.32% compared to Staffline Group's net margin of -1.17%. Gattaca's return on equity of 5.72% beat Staffline Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Staffline Group had 2 more articles in the media than Gattaca. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Staffline Group and 0 mentions for Gattaca. Staffline Group's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Gattaca's score of 0.00 indicating that Staffline Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gattaca pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Staffline Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 87.7%. Gattaca pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Staffline Group pays out -50,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Staffline Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Staffline Group beats Gattaca on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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