SPEC vs. BVC, EAH, POLB, CEL, VLG, AREC, TRX, RENX, C4XD, and IUG
Should you be buying INSPECS Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of INSPECS Group include BATM Advanced Communications (BVC), ECO Animal Health Group (EAH), Poolbeg Pharma (POLB), Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL), Venture Life Group (VLG), Arecor Therapeutics (AREC), Tissue Regenix Group (TRX), Renalytix (RENX), C4X Discovery (C4XD), and Intelligent Ultrasound Group (IUG). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
BATM Advanced Communications (LON:BVC) and INSPECS Group (LON:SPEC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
BATM Advanced Communications pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. INSPECS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. INSPECS Group pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
BATM Advanced Communications has higher earnings, but lower revenue than INSPECS Group.
BATM Advanced Communications has a net margin of -0.16% compared to BATM Advanced Communications' net margin of -0.59%. INSPECS Group's return on equity of -0.17% beat BATM Advanced Communications' return on equity.
BATM Advanced Communications has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, INSPECS Group has a beta of 2.26, meaning that its stock price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500.
41.8% of BATM Advanced Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of INSPECS Group shares are held by institutional investors. 26.2% of BATM Advanced Communications shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.6% of INSPECS Group 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.
In the previous week, BATM Advanced Communications had 1 more articles in the media than INSPECS Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BATM Advanced Communications and 1 mentions for INSPECS Group. INSPECS Group's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat BATM Advanced Communications' score of 0.00 indicating that BATM Advanced Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BATM Advanced Communications received 185 more outperform votes than INSPECS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave INSPECS Group an outperform vote while only 49.48% of users gave BATM Advanced Communications an outperform vote.
Summary
BATM Advanced Communications beats INSPECS Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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