IKA vs. PPS, DWHT, DWHA, DIA, EAAS, GELN, AFC, SUP, STAF, and JNEO
Should you be buying Ilika stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ilika include Proton Motor Power Systems (PPS), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), Dialight (DIA), eEnergy Group (EAAS), Gelion (GELN), AFC Energy (AFC), Supreme (SUP), Staffline Group (STAF), and Journeo (JNEO). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Proton Motor Power Systems (LON:PPS) and Ilika (LON:IKA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
Ilika received 119 more outperform votes than Proton Motor Power Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.89% of users gave Proton Motor Power Systems an outperform vote while only 68.96% of users gave Ilika an outperform vote.
50.1% of Ilika shares are held by institutional investors. 84.1% of Proton Motor Power Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Ilika shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ilika's return on equity of 0.00% beat Proton Motor Power Systems' return on equity.
Ilika has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Proton Motor Power Systems. Ilika is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Proton Motor Power Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Proton Motor Power Systems has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ilika has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ilika had 1 more articles in the media than Proton Motor Power Systems. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ilika and 0 mentions for Proton Motor Power Systems. Ilika's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Proton Motor Power Systems' score of 0.00 indicating that Proton Motor Power Systems is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ilika has a consensus price target of GBX 100, suggesting a potential upside of 250.88%. Given Proton Motor Power Systems' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ilika is more favorable than Proton Motor Power Systems.
Summary
Ilika beats Proton Motor Power Systems on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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