JDG vs. GBG, TRST, DSCV, ATG, LTG, AWE, BOKU, ALFA, CER, and WPS
Should you be buying Judges Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Judges Scientific include GB Group (GBG), Trustpilot Group (TRST), discoverIE Group (DSCV), Auction Technology Group (ATG), Learning Technologies Group (LTG), Alphawave IP Group (AWE), Boku (BOKU), Alfa Financial Software (ALFA), Cerillion (CER), and W.A.G payment solutions (WPS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
GB Group (LON:GBG) and Judges Scientific (LON:JDG) 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, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
GB Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 342.50, suggesting a potential upside of 12.81%. Given Judges Scientific's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe GB Group is more favorable than Judges Scientific.
Judges Scientific has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GB Group. GB Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Judges Scientific, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Judges Scientific has a net margin of 6.98% compared to Judges Scientific's net margin of -62.81%. GB Group's return on equity of 14.44% beat Judges Scientific's return on equity.
GB Group has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Judges Scientific has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
GB Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Judges Scientific pays an annual dividend of GBX 95 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. GB Group pays out -579.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Judges Scientific pays out 6,597.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. GB Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Judges Scientific had 2 more articles in the media than GB Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Judges Scientific and 1 mentions for GB Group. GB Group's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Judges Scientific's score of 0.00 indicating that Judges Scientific is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.9% of GB Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.8% of Judges Scientific shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of GB Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.7% of Judges Scientific shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
GB Group received 301 more outperform votes than Judges Scientific when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.49% of users gave GB Group an outperform vote while only 59.15% of users gave Judges Scientific an outperform vote.
Summary
Judges Scientific beats GB Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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