SFT vs. INSE, WATR, MIND, KGH, VNET, CTG, DLAR, BEG, KEYS, and CPI
Should you be buying Software Circle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Software Circle include Inspired (INSE), Water Intelligence (WATR), Mind Gym (MIND), Knights Group (KGH), Vianet Group (VNET), Christie Group (CTG), De La Rue (DLAR), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Keystone Law Group (KEYS), and Capita (CPI). These companies are all part of the "specialty business services" industry.
Software Circle (LON:SFT) and Inspired (LON:INSE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.
Software Circle has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Inspired. Inspired is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Software Circle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Inspired has a net margin of -7.25% compared to Software Circle's net margin of -16.76%. Inspired's return on equity of -12.36% beat Software Circle's return on equity.
Software Circle pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Inspired pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Software Circle pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Inspired pays out -4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Software Circle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
25.1% of Software Circle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of Inspired shares are owned by institutional investors. 69.9% of Software Circle shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of Inspired shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Software Circle has a beta of 0.22, meaning that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inspired has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Inspired had 1 more articles in the media than Software Circle. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Inspired and 0 mentions for Software Circle. Inspired's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Software Circle's score of 0.00 indicating that Inspired is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Inspired received 202 more outperform votes than Software Circle when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Inspired beats Software Circle on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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