POS vs. PRES, NTQ, GTC, PMG, QED, BOR, SOU, UJO, PXEN, and CEG
Should you be buying Plexus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plexus include Pressure Technologies (PRES), Enteq Technologies (NTQ), Getech Group (GTC), The Parkmead Group (PMG), Quadrise (QED), Borders & Southern Petroleum (BOR), Sound Energy (SOU), Union Jack Oil (UJO), Prospex Energy (PXEN), and Challenger Energy Group (CEG). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Plexus (LON:POS) and Pressure Technologies (LON:PRES) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Plexus received 75 more outperform votes than Pressure Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.18% of users gave Plexus an outperform vote while only 69.84% of users gave Pressure Technologies an outperform vote.
Plexus pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Pressure Technologies pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.5%. Pressure Technologies pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Plexus has a net margin of 4.72% compared to Pressure Technologies' net margin of -2.13%. Plexus' return on equity of 1.97% beat Pressure Technologies' return on equity.
Pressure Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Plexus.
Plexus has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pressure Technologies has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pressure Technologies had 7 more articles in the media than Plexus. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Pressure Technologies and 3 mentions for Plexus. Plexus' average media sentiment score of -0.18 beat Pressure Technologies' score of -0.18 indicating that Plexus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
69.5% of Pressure Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 62.5% of Plexus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Pressure Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Plexus and Pressure Technologies tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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