PEG vs. CSSG, WSG, NWT, MORT, FLX, IGE, UVEL, SPRP, GFS, and LSC
Should you be buying Petards Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petards Group include Croma Security Solutions Group (CSSG), Westminster Group (WSG), Newmark Security (NWT), Mortice (MORT), Falanx Group (FLX), Image Scan (IGE), UniVision Engineering (UVEL), Sprue Aegis (SPRP), G4S (GFS), and London Security (LSC). These companies are all part of the "security & protection services" industry.
Petards Group (LON:PEG) and Croma Security Solutions Group (LON:CSSG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Petards Group received 18 more outperform votes than Croma Security Solutions Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 83.46% of users gave Croma Security Solutions Group an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Petards Group an outperform vote.
9.6% of Petards Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Croma Security Solutions Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.2% of Petards Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 58.6% of Croma Security Solutions Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Croma Security Solutions Group had 1 more articles in the media than Petards Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Croma Security Solutions Group and 0 mentions for Petards Group. Croma Security Solutions Group's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Petards Group's score of 0.34 indicating that Croma Security Solutions Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Croma Security Solutions Group has a net margin of 42.72% compared to Petards Group's net margin of 1.25%. Petards Group's return on equity of 1.55% beat Croma Security Solutions Group's return on equity.
Croma Security Solutions Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Petards Group.
Petards Group has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Croma Security Solutions Group has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Croma Security Solutions Group beats Petards Group on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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