SFOR vs. ASCL, NFC, YOU, TRS, NFG, HNT, NEXN, TRMR, SAA, and SYS1
Should you be buying S4 Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S4 Capital include Ascential (ASCL), Next Fifteen Communications Group (NFC), YouGov (YOU), Tarsus Group (TRS), Next 15 Group (NFG), Huntsworth (HNT), Nexxen International (NEXN), Tremor International (TRMR), M&C Saatchi (SAA), and System1 Group (SYS1). These companies are all part of the "advertising agencies" industry.
S4 Capital (LON:SFOR) and Ascential (LON:ASCL) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
S4 Capital has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascential has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ascential had 3 more articles in the media than S4 Capital. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ascential and 0 mentions for S4 Capital. Ascential's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat S4 Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Ascential is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ascential has a net margin of 137.00% compared to S4 Capital's net margin of -0.59%. Ascential's return on equity of 8.85% beat S4 Capital's return on equity.
36.9% of S4 Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 105.3% of Ascential shares are held by institutional investors. 20.1% of S4 Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Ascential shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
S4 Capital currently has a consensus target price of GBX 70, indicating a potential upside of 46.57%. Ascential has a consensus target price of GBX 428.67, indicating a potential downside of 24.73%. Given S4 Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe S4 Capital is more favorable than Ascential.
Ascential has lower revenue, but higher earnings than S4 Capital. S4 Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ascential, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ascential received 449 more outperform votes than S4 Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.76% of users gave S4 Capital an outperform vote while only 79.65% of users gave Ascential an outperform vote.
Summary
Ascential beats S4 Capital on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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