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Touchstar (TST) Competitors

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GBX 90 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 08/1/2025

TST vs. CNC, XAR, NXQ, IND, GST, CYAN, INSG, NANO, SMRT, and GETB

Should you be buying Touchstar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Touchstar include Concurrent Technologies (CNC), Xaar (XAR), Nexteq (NXQ), IndigoVision Group plc (IND.L) (IND), GSTechnologies (GST), CyanConnode (CYAN), Insig AI (INSG), Nanoco Group (NANO), Smartspace Software (SMRT), and GetBusy (GETB). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.

Touchstar vs. Its Competitors

Concurrent Technologies (LON:CNC) and Touchstar (LON:TST) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.

Concurrent Technologies has a net margin of 13.89% compared to Touchstar's net margin of 8.71%. Touchstar's return on equity of 17.58% beat Concurrent Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Concurrent Technologies13.89% 13.89% 8.31%
Touchstar 8.71%17.58%5.19%

24.4% of Concurrent Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of Touchstar shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Concurrent Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 55.3% of Touchstar shares are owned by 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.

Concurrent Technologies pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Touchstar pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Concurrent Technologies pays out 17.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Touchstar pays out 41.9% 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.

Concurrent Technologies has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Touchstar has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Concurrent Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Touchstar. Touchstar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concurrent Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Concurrent Technologies£36.64M4.24£5.09M£5.8530.73
Touchstar£7.01M1.07£610.87K£7.1612.56

In the previous week, Touchstar had 2 more articles in the media than Concurrent Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Touchstar and 0 mentions for Concurrent Technologies. Touchstar's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Concurrent Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Touchstar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Concurrent Technologies Neutral
Touchstar Positive

Summary

Concurrent Technologies beats Touchstar on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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TST vs. The Competition

MetricTouchstarComputer Hardware IndustryComputer SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.53M£93.95M£28.49B£3.04B
Dividend Yield0.03%3.62%3.09%5.02%
P/E Ratio12.568.8948.12178.04
Price / Sales1.07121.371,528.45263,976.20
Price / Cash2.6912.7333.4627.97
Price / Book2.082.538.224.54
Net Income£610.87K-£1.57M£802.12M£5.90B
7 Day PerformanceN/A-3.66%3.28%12.88%
1 Month Performance-0.55%16.56%-1.13%4.69%
1 Year Performance-9.09%435.68%53,364.62%71.38%

Touchstar Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TST
Touchstar
N/AGBX 90
flat
N/A-9.1%£7.53M£7.01M12.5653News Coverage
Positive News
CNC
Concurrent Technologies
N/AGBX 179.99
-0.3%
N/A+55.8%£155.51M£36.64M30.7774,300Positive News
XAR
Xaar
N/AGBX 128
+1.8%
N/A-9.0%£101.33M£65.44M-29.11444Gap Up
NXQ
Nexteq
N/AGBX 70
+1.4%
GBX 200
+185.7%
-19.2%£52.80M£121.17M5.55219
IND
IndigoVision Group plc (IND.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£28.69M£50.18M17.38124
GST
GSTechnologies
N/AGBX 1.06
-1.1%
N/A+30.3%£28.58M£2.21M-20.6448Gap Up
CYAN
CyanConnode
N/AGBX 7.82
+0.9%
N/A-4.3%£27.32M£23.07M-5.82100
INSG
Insig AI
N/AGBX 22.60
+0.4%
N/A+47.2%£26.61M£434.81K-1.42410Positive News
NANO
Nanoco Group
N/AGBX 13.90
+1.8%
N/A-10.2%£26.26M£5.15M-31.1046
SMRT
Smartspace Software
N/AN/AN/AN/A£26.05M£5.43M-1,500.00640
GETB
GetBusy
N/AGBX 49.25
-3.4%
N/A-25.2%£24.97M£21.38M46.99147High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:TST) was last updated on 8/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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