DIA vs. IKA, PPS, GELN, DWHT, DWHA, EAAS, AFC, SUP, XPP, and INSE
Should you be buying Dialight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dialight include Ilika (IKA), Proton Motor Power Systems (PPS), Gelion (GELN), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), eEnergy Group (EAAS), AFC Energy (AFC), Supreme (SUP), XP Power (XPP), and Inspired (INSE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Dialight (LON:DIA) and Ilika (LON:IKA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Dialight presently has a consensus target price of GBX 210, suggesting a potential upside of 30.43%. Ilika has a consensus target price of GBX 100, suggesting a potential upside of 222.84%. Given Ilika's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ilika is more favorable than Dialight.
84.7% of Dialight shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.6% of Ilika shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Dialight shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Ilika shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dialight has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ilika has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ilika received 20 more outperform votes than Dialight when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.96% of users gave Ilika an outperform vote while only 62.99% of users gave Dialight an outperform vote.
Ilika has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Dialight's net margin of -7.26%. Dialight's return on equity of -16.11% beat Ilika's return on equity.
In the previous week, Dialight and Dialight both had 3 articles in the media. Dialight's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Ilika's score of -0.25 indicating that Dialight is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ilika has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Dialight. Ilika is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dialight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ilika beats Dialight on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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