XPP vs. SMS, VLX, CWR, TFW, LUCE, SUP, AFC, DIA, DWHT, and IKA
Should you be buying XP Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XP Power include Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Volex (VLX), Ceres Power (CWR), FW Thorpe (TFW), Luceco (LUCE), Supreme (SUP), AFC Energy (AFC), Dialight (DIA), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), and Ilika (IKA). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment & parts" industry.
Smart Metering Systems (LON:SMS) and XP Power (LON:XPP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
74.9% of Smart Metering Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.0% of XP Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of Smart Metering Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of XP Power 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.
XP Power has a consensus target price of GBX 1,656.67, indicating a potential upside of 15.85%. Given Smart Metering Systems' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe XP Power is more favorable than Smart Metering Systems.
Smart Metering Systems has a net margin of 10.97% compared to Smart Metering Systems' net margin of -2.91%. XP Power's return on equity of 2.73% beat Smart Metering Systems' return on equity.
XP Power received 25 more outperform votes than Smart Metering Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.93% of users gave Smart Metering Systems an outperform vote while only 74.80% of users gave XP Power an outperform vote.
Smart Metering Systems has higher earnings, but lower revenue than XP Power. XP Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Metering Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Smart Metering Systems pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. XP Power pays an annual dividend of GBX 94 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Smart Metering Systems pays out 27,272.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. XP Power pays out -20,888.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. XP Power is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, XP Power had 1 more articles in the media than Smart Metering Systems. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for XP Power and 2 mentions for Smart Metering Systems. Smart Metering Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat XP Power's score of 0.59 indicating that XP Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Smart Metering Systems has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XP Power has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
XP Power beats Smart Metering Systems on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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