PRES vs. POS, NTQ, GTC, STAR, IGAS, CEG, SOU, TRIN, PXEN, and PMG
Should you be buying Pressure Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pressure Technologies include Plexus (POS), Enteq Technologies (NTQ), Getech Group (GTC), Star Energy Group (STAR), IGas Energy (IGAS), Challenger Energy Group (CEG), Sound Energy (SOU), Trinity Exploration & Production (TRIN), Prospex Energy (PXEN), and The Parkmead Group (PMG). 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 better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, 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.
Pressure Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Plexus.
Plexus has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pressure Technologies has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
69.5% of Pressure Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 62.5% of Plexus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Pressure Technologies shares are held 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.
Plexus has a net margin of 4.72% compared to Plexus' net margin of -2.13%. Pressure Technologies' return on equity of 1.97% beat Plexus' return on equity.
In the previous week, Pressure Technologies had 11 more articles in the media than Plexus. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Pressure Technologies and 0 mentions for Plexus. Plexus' average media sentiment score of -0.14 beat Pressure Technologies' score of -0.80 indicating that Pressure Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Plexus pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Pressure Technologies pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 21.3%. Pressure Technologies pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Pressure Technologies beats Plexus on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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