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Xaar (XAR) Competitors

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GBX 105 -1.50 (-1.41%)
As of 05/23/2025 11:49 AM Eastern

XAR vs. CNC, NXQ, TST, TCM, IQG, BIG, IDOX, FTC, DOTD, and FDM

Should you be buying Xaar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xaar include Concurrent Technologies (CNC), Nexteq (NXQ), Touchstar (TST), Telit Communications (TCM), IQGeo Group (IQG), Big Technologies (BIG), IDOX (IDOX), Filtronic (FTC), dotdigital Group (DOTD), and FDM Group (FDM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.

Xaar vs.

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

24.4% of Concurrent Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.4% of Xaar shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Concurrent Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Xaar shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Concurrent Technologies has a net margin of 13.89% compared to Xaar's net margin of -5.32%. Concurrent Technologies' return on equity of 13.89% beat Xaar's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Concurrent Technologies13.89% 13.89% 8.31%
Xaar -5.32%-4.85%-3.65%

In the previous week, Concurrent Technologies and Concurrent Technologies both had 2 articles in the media. Concurrent Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Xaar's score of 0.65 indicating that Concurrent Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Concurrent Technologies
0 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Xaar
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Concurrent Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Xaar. Xaar 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£36.64M4.69£5.09M£5.8534.03
Xaar£65.44M1.27-£3.48M-£4.40-23.88

Concurrent Technologies pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Xaar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Concurrent Technologies pays out 17.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Xaar pays out -182.0% 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. Xaar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Concurrent Technologies has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xaar has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Xaar received 221 more outperform votes than Concurrent Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.52% of users gave Xaar an outperform vote while only 56.67% of users gave Concurrent Technologies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Concurrent TechnologiesOutperform Votes
51
56.67%
Underperform Votes
39
43.33%
XaarOutperform Votes
272
59.52%
Underperform Votes
185
40.48%

Summary

Concurrent Technologies beats Xaar on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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XAR vs. The Competition

MetricXaarComputer Hardware IndustryComputer SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£83.13M£62.28M£24.83B£2.62B
Dividend Yield10.92%3.62%2.91%5.05%
P/E Ratio-23.889.5144.13134.60
Price / Sales1.27124.202,137.46221,328.11
Price / Cash11.0412.7334.7828.03
Price / Book1.171.876.693.84
Net Income-£3.48M-£1.57M£739.31M£5.88B
7 Day Performance3.96%2.94%-1.43%3.54%
1 Month Performance6.06%12.70%10.87%25.38%
1 Year Performance-17.32%331.64%52,791.19%130.62%

Xaar Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
XAR
Xaar
N/AGBX 105
-1.4%
N/A-17.3%£83.13M£65.44M-23.88444
CNC
Concurrent Technologies
N/AGBX 195
-2.5%
N/A+95.7%£168.47M£36.64M33.3474,300
NXQ
Nexteq
4.0277 of 5 stars
GBX 66.88
+2.1%
GBX 200
+199.0%
-56.6%£50.45M£121.17M5.30219Gap Up
TST
Touchstar
N/AGBX 90
+2.9%
N/A-12.2%£7.53M£7.01M12.5653Gap Up
TCM
Telit Communications
N/AN/AN/AN/A£307.75M£343.62M69.39820
IQG
IQGeo Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£295.50M£44.48M-20,700.00217
BIG
Big Technologies
N/AGBX 102
+2.0%
N/A-27.1%£289.73M£53.85M22.8436,200Trending News
Earnings Report
Insider Trade
IDOX
IDOX
1.7073 of 5 stars
GBX 57.60
+2.1%
GBX 85.50
+48.4%
-13.4%£263.40M£81.51M47.54626News Coverage
FTC
Filtronic
N/AGBX 118.90
-0.5%
N/A+112.5%£258.12M£25.43M81.48125Gap Up
DOTD
dotdigital Group
3.1087 of 5 stars
GBX 83.40
-3.0%
GBX 150
+79.9%
-18.2%£254.89M£78.69M23.02400News Coverage
Dividend Increase
FDM
FDM Group
3.2407 of 5 stars
GBX 229
-1.3%
GBX 430
+87.8%
-47.6%£250.00M£294.27M8.225,637News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:XAR) was last updated on 5/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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