IGE vs. PEG, WSG, SLNG, PHSC, AEG, CMH, SNT, INSP, AUK, and LIFS
Should you be buying Image Scan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Image Scan include Petards Group (PEG), Westminster Group (WSG), H C Slingsby (SLNG), PHSC (PHSC), Active Energy Group (AEG), Chamberlin (CMH), Sabien Technology Group (SNT), Inspirit Energy (INSP), Aukett Swanke Group (AUK), and LifeSafe (LIFS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Petards Group (LON:PEG) and Image Scan (LON:IGE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
Image Scan has a net margin of 4.18% compared to Image Scan's net margin of 1.25%. Petards Group's return on equity of 8.55% beat Image Scan's return on equity.
Petards Group has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Image Scan has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Image Scan received 11 more outperform votes than Petards Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.30% of users gave Image Scan an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Petards Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Image Scan had 1 more articles in the media than Petards Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Image Scan and 0 mentions for Petards Group. Petards Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Image Scan's score of 0.00 indicating that Image Scan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
9.6% of Petards Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.7% of Image Scan shares are held by institutional investors. 56.2% of Petards Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 83.8% of Image Scan shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Image Scan beats Petards Group on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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