DCM vs. GDI, ISV, DXT, KBL, KUT, TRI, RBA, CGY, IBG, and PYR
Should you be buying DATA Communications Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DATA Communications Management include GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), Information Services (ISV), Dexterra Group (DXT), K-Bro Linen (KBL), RediShred Capital (KUT), Thomson Reuters (TRI), RB Global (RBA), Calian Group (CGY), IBI Group (IBG), and PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (PYR.V) (PYR). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
GDI Integrated Facility Services (TSE:GDI) and DATA Communications Management (TSE:DCM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
GDI Integrated Facility Services presently has a consensus price target of C$42.92, suggesting a potential upside of 21.10%. DATA Communications Management has a consensus price target of C$6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 104.78%. Given GDI Integrated Facility Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe DATA Communications Management is more favorable than GDI Integrated Facility Services.
GDI Integrated Facility Services has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, DATA Communications Management has a beta of 3.55, suggesting that its share price is 255% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GDI Integrated Facility Services has a net margin of 0.60% compared to GDI Integrated Facility Services' net margin of -2.38%. DATA Communications Management's return on equity of 3.34% beat GDI Integrated Facility Services' return on equity.
In the previous week, DATA Communications Management had 1 more articles in the media than GDI Integrated Facility Services. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for DATA Communications Management and 1 mentions for GDI Integrated Facility Services. DATA Communications Management's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat GDI Integrated Facility Services' score of 0.50 indicating that GDI Integrated Facility Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
GDI Integrated Facility Services has higher revenue and earnings than DATA Communications Management. DATA Communications Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GDI Integrated Facility Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
49.2% of GDI Integrated Facility Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of DATA Communications Management shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of GDI Integrated Facility Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of DATA Communications Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
GDI Integrated Facility Services received 169 more outperform votes than DATA Communications Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.91% of users gave DATA Communications Management an outperform vote while only 64.86% of users gave GDI Integrated Facility Services an outperform vote.
Summary
GDI Integrated Facility Services beats DATA Communications Management on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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