GHH vs. SOLI, KETL, TTG, OMG, GHT, EYE, NET, BKS, IOM, and ECK
Should you be buying Gooch & Housego stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gooch & Housego include Solid State (SOLI), Strix Group (KETL), TT Electronics (TTG), Oxford Metrics (OMG), Gresham Technologies (GHT), Eagle Eye Solutions Group (EYE), Netcall (NET), Beeks Financial Cloud Group (BKS), iomart Group (IOM), and Eckoh (ECK). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Solid State (LON:SOLI) and Gooch & Housego (LON:GHH) 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 institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Gooch & Housego has a consensus price target of GBX 750, suggesting a potential upside of 36.46%. Given Solid State's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gooch & Housego is more favorable than Solid State.
Solid State pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Gooch & Housego pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Solid State pays out 3,181.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Gooch & Housego pays out 8,125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Solid State has a net margin of 5.06% compared to Solid State's net margin of 2.73%. Gooch & Housego's return on equity of 12.87% beat Solid State's return on equity.
Gooch & Housego received 18 more outperform votes than Solid State when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.54% of users gave Solid State an outperform vote while only 58.48% of users gave Gooch & Housego an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Solid State had 8 more articles in the media than Gooch & Housego. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Solid State and 1 mentions for Gooch & Housego. Solid State's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Gooch & Housego's score of 0.36 indicating that Gooch & Housego is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Solid State has higher revenue and earnings than Gooch & Housego. Solid State is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gooch & Housego, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
49.8% of Solid State shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.2% of Gooch & Housego shares are held by institutional investors. 16.2% of Solid State shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.1% of Gooch & Housego shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Solid State has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gooch & Housego has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Solid State beats Gooch & Housego on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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