KBT vs. TRD, TPX, CSFS, MTEC, GST, MRIT, TIA, ECK, CLX, and ENSI
Should you be buying K3 Business Technology Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of K3 Business Technology Group include Triad Group (TRD), TPXimpact (TPX), Cornerstone FS (CSFS), Made Tech Group (MTEC), GSTechnologies (GST), Merit Group (MRIT), Tialis Essential IT (TIA), Eckoh (ECK), Calnex Solutions (CLX), and EnSilica (ENSI). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Triad Group (LON:TRD) and K3 Business Technology Group (LON:KBT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
1.0% of Triad Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.0% of K3 Business Technology Group shares are held by institutional investors. 88.6% of Triad Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.0% of K3 Business Technology Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Triad Group has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, K3 Business Technology Group has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Triad Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than K3 Business Technology Group. Triad Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than K3 Business Technology Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Triad Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. K3 Business Technology Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Triad Group pays out -15,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. K3 Business Technology Group pays out -4,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Triad Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Triad Group has a net margin of -4.47% compared to Triad Group's net margin of -5.45%. Triad Group's return on equity of -7.96% beat K3 Business Technology Group's return on equity.
K3 Business Technology Group received 40 more outperform votes than Triad Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.10% of users gave Triad Group an outperform vote while only 53.10% of users gave K3 Business Technology Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Triad Group and Triad Group both had 2 articles in the media. Triad Group's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat K3 Business Technology Group's score of 0.25 indicating that K3 Business Technology Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Triad Group beats K3 Business Technology Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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