XLM vs. CNCT, QRT, HYNS, QRTR, INM, TNI, INF, PSON, ERM, and FUTR
Should you be buying XLMedia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XLMedia include Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT), The Quarto Group (QRT), Haynes Publishing Group (HYNS), The Quarto Group (QRTR), Independent News & Media (INM), 1819989 (TNI.L) (TNI), Informa (INF), Pearson (PSON), Euromoney Institutional Investor (ERM), and Future (FUTR). These companies are all part of the "publishing" industry.
Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (LON:CNCT) and XLMedia (LON:XLM) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
XLMedia has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L). Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) 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 Plc (CNCT.L) pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share. XLMedia pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 60.0%. Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) pays out -5.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) received 174 more outperform votes than XLMedia when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.00% of users gave Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) an outperform vote while only 72.95% of users gave XLMedia an outperform vote.
Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L)'s net margin of -9.10%. Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L)'s return on equity of 3.05% beat XLMedia's return on equity.
9.3% of XLMedia shares are held by institutional investors. 34.8% of XLMedia 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, Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) and Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) both had 1 articles in the media. Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L)'s average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat XLMedia's score of 0.34 indicating that XLMedia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
XLMedia beats Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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