CCP vs. TMO, EMAN, FDEV, STVG, SNWS, DEVO, PEBB, LBG, SYS1, and CAU
Should you be buying Celtic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celtic include Time Out Group (TMO), Everyman Media Group (EMAN), Frontier Developments (FDEV), STV Group (STVG), Smiths News (SNWS), Devolver Digital (DEVO), The Pebble Group (PEBB), LBG Media (LBG), System1 Group (SYS1), and Centaur Media (CAU). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Time Out Group (LON:TMO) and Celtic (LON:CCP) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and community ranking.
Celtic has a consensus price target of GBX 190, indicating a potential upside of 36.45%. Given Time Out Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Celtic is more favorable than Time Out Group.
Celtic has a net margin of 21.73% compared to Celtic's net margin of -17.66%. Time Out Group's return on equity of 23.88% beat Celtic's return on equity.
42.8% of Time Out Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.4% of Celtic shares are held by institutional investors. 47.6% of Time Out Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 57.5% of Celtic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Celtic has higher revenue and earnings than Time Out Group. Time Out Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Celtic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Time Out Group had 1 more articles in the media than Celtic. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Time Out Group and 0 mentions for Celtic. Celtic's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Time Out Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Time Out Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Time Out Group has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celtic has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Time Out Group received 146 more outperform votes than Celtic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.91% of users gave Time Out Group an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Celtic an outperform vote.
Summary
Celtic beats Time Out Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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