MAI vs. BBB, NWOR, BBSN, BOOM, XLM, NAH, TBLD, EBQ, EMAN, and TMG
Should you be buying Maintel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maintel include Bigblu Broadband (BBB), National World (NWOR), Brave Bison Group (BBSN), Audioboom Group (BOOM), XLMedia (XLM), NAHL Group (NAH), tinyBuild (TBLD), Ebiquity (EBQ), Everyman Media Group (EMAN), and The Mission Group (TMG). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Bigblu Broadband (LON:BBB) and Maintel (LON:MAI) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Bigblu Broadband has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Maintel. Maintel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bigblu Broadband, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bigblu Broadband and Bigblu Broadband both had 1 articles in the media. Bigblu Broadband's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Maintel's score of 0.00 indicating that Maintel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bigblu Broadband pays an annual dividend of GBX 90 per share and has a dividend yield of 264.7%. Maintel pays an annual dividend of GBX 35 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.3%. Bigblu Broadband pays out -128,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Maintel pays out -7,291.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Bigblu Broadband is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Maintel received 51 more outperform votes than Bigblu Broadband when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.65% of users gave Bigblu Broadband an outperform vote while only 53.01% of users gave Maintel an outperform vote.
53.7% of Bigblu Broadband shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.6% of Maintel shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.5% of Bigblu Broadband shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 63.8% of Maintel shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Maintel has a net margin of -7.47% compared to Maintel's net margin of -13.53%. Maintel's return on equity of -31.82% beat Bigblu Broadband's return on equity.
Bigblu Broadband has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maintel has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bigblu Broadband beats Maintel on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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