CNC vs. XAR, NXQ, ELCO, QTX, AOM, CLBS, ACC, WNWD, SPA, and BGO
Should you be buying Concurrent Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Concurrent Technologies include Xaar (XAR), Nexteq (NXQ), Eleco (ELCO), Quartix Technologies (QTX), ActiveOps (AOM), Celebrus Technologies (CLBS), Access Intelligence (ACC), Windward (WNWD), 1Spatial (SPA), and Bango (BGO). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Concurrent Technologies (LON:CNC) and Xaar (LON:XAR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Xaar received 221 more outperform votes than Concurrent Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.52% of users gave Xaar an outperform vote while only 56.67% of users gave Concurrent Technologies an outperform vote.
28.3% of Concurrent Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Xaar shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.7% of Concurrent Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Xaar shares are owned 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.
Concurrent Technologies has a net margin of 6.80% compared to Xaar's net margin of -3.08%. Concurrent Technologies' return on equity of 6.43% beat Xaar's return on equity.
In the previous week, Concurrent Technologies had 5 more articles in the media than Xaar. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Concurrent Technologies and 0 mentions for Xaar. Concurrent Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.02 beat Xaar's score of 0.00 indicating that Concurrent Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Concurrent Technologies has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xaar has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Concurrent Technologies pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Xaar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Concurrent Technologies pays out 15,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Xaar pays out -26,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Xaar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Concurrent Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Xaar. Xaar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concurrent Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Concurrent Technologies beats Xaar on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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