QTX vs. SDI, SRT, KMK, XAR, BGO, CRTA, FTC, ELCO, CNC, and TRB
Should you be buying Quartix Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quartix Technologies include SDI Group (SDI), SRT Marine Systems (SRT), Kromek Group (KMK), Xaar (XAR), Bango (BGO), Cirata (CRTA), Filtronic (FTC), Eleco (ELCO), Concurrent Technologies (CNC), and Tribal Group (TRB). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Quartix Technologies (LON:QTX) and SDI Group (LON:SDI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Quartix Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SDI Group. Quartix Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SDI Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Quartix Technologies has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SDI Group has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
31.7% of Quartix Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of SDI Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.1% of Quartix Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of SDI Group shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, SDI Group had 3 more articles in the media than Quartix Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for SDI Group and 1 mentions for Quartix Technologies. Quartix Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat SDI Group's score of 0.29 indicating that Quartix Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SDI Group has a net margin of 2.36% compared to Quartix Technologies' net margin of -3.04%. SDI Group's return on equity of 3.93% beat Quartix Technologies' return on equity.
Quartix Technologies received 10 more outperform votes than SDI Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.19% of users gave Quartix Technologies an outperform vote while only 55.12% of users gave SDI Group an outperform vote.
Summary
SDI Group beats Quartix Technologies on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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