LUCE vs. XPP, CWR, SUP, AFC, TFW, VLX, ELIX, VP, ASY, and RCDO
Should you be buying Luceco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luceco include XP Power (XPP), Ceres Power (CWR), Supreme (SUP), AFC Energy (AFC), FW Thorpe (TFW), Volex (VLX), Elixirr International (ELIX), VP (VP), Andrews Sykes Group (ASY), and Ricardo (RCDO). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Luceco (LON:LUCE) and XP Power (LON:XPP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation and risk.
24.5% of Luceco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.6% of XP Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.7% of Luceco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of XP Power shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Luceco has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XP Power has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
XP Power received 132 more outperform votes than Luceco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.73% of users gave XP Power an outperform vote while only 68.42% of users gave Luceco an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Luceco and Luceco both had 1 articles in the media. XP Power's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Luceco's score of 0.50 indicating that XP Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Luceco pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. XP Power pays an annual dividend of GBX 94 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Luceco pays out 4,545.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. XP Power pays out -20,888.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. XP Power is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Luceco has a net margin of 7.99% compared to XP Power's net margin of -2.91%. Luceco's return on equity of 18.50% beat XP Power's return on equity.
XP Power has a consensus target price of GBX 1,473.33, suggesting a potential upside of 23.81%. Given XP Power's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe XP Power is more favorable than Luceco.
Luceco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than XP Power. XP Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Luceco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
XP Power beats Luceco on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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