LPA Group (LPA) Competitors

eEnergy Group (LON:EAAS) and LPA Group (LON:LPA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in EAAS or LPA?

4.0% of eEnergy Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of LPA Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.8% of eEnergy Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 57.3% of LPA Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, EAAS or LPA?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
eEnergy Group	£19.19M	0.86	-£4.33M	-£1.12	-3.82
LPA Group	£26.27M	0.26	£1.09M	£7.00	6.85

Do analysts prefer EAAS or LPA?

eEnergy Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 12, suggesting a potential upside of 181.03%. Given eEnergy Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe eEnergy Group is more favorable than LPA Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
eEnergy Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
LPA Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor EAAS or LPA?

LPA Group received 107 more outperform votes than eEnergy Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave eEnergy Group an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave LPA Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
eEnergy Group	Outperform Votes 5 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
LPA Group	Outperform Votes 112 66.67%	Underperform Votes 56 33.33%

Is EAAS or LPA more profitable?

LPA Group has a net margin of 4.16% compared to eEnergy Group's net margin of -22.56%. LPA Group's return on equity of 6.30% beat eEnergy Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
eEnergy Group	-22.56%	-16.48%	3.87%
LPA Group	4.16%	6.30%	0.65%

Which has more risk & volatility, EAAS or LPA?

eEnergy Group has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LPA Group has a beta of 0.08, indicating that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer EAAS or LPA?

In the previous week, eEnergy Group had 1 more articles in the media than LPA Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for eEnergy Group and 0 mentions for LPA Group. eEnergy Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled LPA Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
eEnergy Group	Neutral
LPA Group	Neutral

Summary

LPA Group beats eEnergy Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.