XLM vs. SNWS, NAH, BBSN, MAI, NWOR, TBLD, BOOM, BBB, TMG, and SBDS
Should you be buying XLMedia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XLMedia include Smiths News (SNWS), NAHL Group (NAH), Brave Bison Group (BBSN), Maintel (MAI), National World (NWOR), tinyBuild (TBLD), Audioboom Group (BOOM), Bigblu Broadband (BBB), The Mission Group (TMG), and Silver Bullet Data Services Group (SBDS). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Smiths News (LON:SNWS) and XLMedia (LON:XLM) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Smiths News has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XLMedia has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Smiths News has higher revenue and earnings than XLMedia. Smiths News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than XLMedia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Smiths News pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. XLMedia pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 49.0%. Smiths News pays out 4,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. XLMedia pays out 60,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
61.8% of Smiths News shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.8% of XLMedia shares are held by institutional investors. 13.4% of Smiths News shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 35.1% of XLMedia shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, XLMedia had 5 more articles in the media than Smiths News. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for XLMedia and 16 mentions for Smiths News. Smiths News' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat XLMedia's score of 0.33 indicating that XLMedia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
XLMedia received 205 more outperform votes than Smiths News when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Smiths News an outperform vote while only 72.95% of users gave XLMedia an outperform vote.
Smiths News has a net margin of 2.30% compared to Smiths News' net margin of -9.10%. Smiths News' return on equity of 3.05% beat XLMedia's return on equity.
Smiths News currently has a consensus price target of GBX 85, indicating a potential upside of 66.67%. Given XLMedia's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Smiths News is more favorable than XLMedia.
Summary
Smiths News beats XLMedia on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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