IOM vs. BKS, SEE, BGO, WNWD, FNX, CNS, PCIP, PAY, WPS, and BOKU
Should you be buying iomart Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iomart Group include Beeks Financial Cloud Group (BKS), Seeing Machines (SEE), Bango (BGO), Windward (WNWD), Fonix Mobile (FNX), Corero Network Security (CNS), PCI-PAL (PCIP), PayPoint (PAY), W.A.G payment solutions (WPS), and Boku (BOKU). These companies are all part of the "software - infrastructure" industry.
Beeks Financial Cloud Group (LON:BKS) and iomart Group (LON:IOM) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
iomart Group received 248 more outperform votes than Beeks Financial Cloud Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.58% of users gave iomart Group an outperform vote while only 69.77% of users gave Beeks Financial Cloud Group an outperform vote.
Beeks Financial Cloud Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 240, suggesting a potential upside of 33.33%. iomart Group has a consensus target price of GBX 185, suggesting a potential upside of 36.53%. Given Beeks Financial Cloud Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe iomart Group is more favorable than Beeks Financial Cloud Group.
In the previous week, iomart Group had 8 more articles in the media than Beeks Financial Cloud Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for iomart Group and 1 mentions for Beeks Financial Cloud Group. Beeks Financial Cloud Group's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat iomart Group's score of 0.10 indicating that iomart Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
iomart Group has a net margin of 5.27% compared to iomart Group's net margin of 2.37%. Beeks Financial Cloud Group's return on equity of 5.46% beat iomart Group's return on equity.
Beeks Financial Cloud Group has a beta of 0.2, indicating that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iomart Group has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
41.4% of Beeks Financial Cloud Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of iomart Group shares are held by institutional investors. 44.7% of Beeks Financial Cloud Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.2% of iomart Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
iomart Group has higher revenue and earnings than Beeks Financial Cloud Group. iomart Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beeks Financial Cloud Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
iomart Group beats Beeks Financial Cloud Group on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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