FORA vs. Y, BRAG, EAGR, TGO, WILD, CGO, CGX, EGLX, GVC, and CCA
Should you be buying VerticalScope stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VerticalScope include Yellow Pages (Y), Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG), East Side Games Group (EAGR), TeraGo (TGO), WildBrain (WILD), Cogeco (CGO), Cineplex (CGX), Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX), Glacier Media (GVC), and Cogeco Communications (CCA). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Yellow Pages (TSE:Y) and VerticalScope (TSE:FORA) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Yellow Pages has higher revenue and earnings than VerticalScope. VerticalScope is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yellow Pages, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yellow Pages has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VerticalScope has a beta of 0.03, indicating that its share price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yellow Pages presently has a consensus price target of C$12.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.08%. VerticalScope has a consensus price target of C$10.03, indicating a potential upside of 30.75%. Given Yellow Pages' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe VerticalScope is more favorable than Yellow Pages.
Yellow Pages received 127 more outperform votes than VerticalScope when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.58% of users gave Yellow Pages an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave VerticalScope an outperform vote.
109.6% of Yellow Pages shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.0% of VerticalScope shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Yellow Pages shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 52.4% of VerticalScope shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Yellow Pages had 6 more articles in the media than VerticalScope. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Yellow Pages and 0 mentions for VerticalScope. VerticalScope's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Yellow Pages' score of 0.00 indicating that Yellow Pages is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Yellow Pages has a net margin of 19.80% compared to Yellow Pages' net margin of -8.13%. VerticalScope's return on equity of 87.75% beat Yellow Pages' return on equity.
Summary
Yellow Pages beats VerticalScope on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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