SAA vs. SFOR, NEXN, PEBB, CAU, CCPC, RCH, TMO, LBG, CCP, and SNWS
Should you be buying M&C Saatchi stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M&C Saatchi include S4 Capital (SFOR), Nexxen International (NEXN), The Pebble Group (PEBB), Centaur Media (CAU), Celtic (CCPC), Reach (RCH), Time Out Group (TMO), LBG Media (LBG), Celtic (CCP), and Smiths News (SNWS). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
S4 Capital (LON:SFOR) and M&C Saatchi (LON:SAA) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
46.5% of S4 Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.0% of M&C Saatchi shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.8% of S4 Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of M&C Saatchi shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
S4 Capital has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M&C Saatchi has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
S4 Capital currently has a consensus target price of GBX 240, indicating a potential upside of 348.60%. Given M&C Saatchi's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe S4 Capital is more favorable than M&C Saatchi.
M&C Saatchi received 116 more outperform votes than S4 Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.46% of users gave S4 Capital an outperform vote while only 69.96% of users gave M&C Saatchi an outperform vote.
In the previous week, S4 Capital had 2 more articles in the media than M&C Saatchi. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for S4 Capital and 0 mentions for M&C Saatchi. S4 Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat M&C Saatchi's score of -0.95 indicating that M&C Saatchi is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
M&C Saatchi has a net margin of -0.47% compared to M&C Saatchi's net margin of -8.51%. S4 Capital's return on equity of -6.95% beat M&C Saatchi's return on equity.
M&C Saatchi has lower revenue, but higher earnings than S4 Capital. M&C Saatchi is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S4 Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
M&C Saatchi beats S4 Capital on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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