MAI vs. BBB, NWOR, BOOM, XLM, BBSN, NAH, EMAN, EBQ, TMG, and TBLD
Should you be buying Maintel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maintel include Bigblu Broadband (BBB), National World (NWOR), Audioboom Group (BOOM), XLMedia (XLM), Brave Bison Group (BBSN), NAHL Group (NAH), Everyman Media Group (EMAN), Ebiquity (EBQ), The Mission Group (TMG), and tinyBuild (TBLD). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Maintel (LON:MAI) and Bigblu Broadband (LON:BBB) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Maintel has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bigblu Broadband has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Maintel received 51 more outperform votes than Bigblu Broadband when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.65% of users gave Bigblu Broadband an outperform vote while only 53.01% of users gave Maintel an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Maintel had 3 more articles in the media than Bigblu Broadband. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Maintel and 0 mentions for Bigblu Broadband. Bigblu Broadband's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Maintel's score of 0.28 indicating that Bigblu Broadband is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
32.2% of Maintel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.7% of Bigblu Broadband shares are held by institutional investors. 63.7% of Maintel shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.5% of Bigblu Broadband shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Maintel pays an annual dividend of GBX 35 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.3%. Bigblu Broadband pays an annual dividend of GBX 90 per share and has a dividend yield of 214.3%. Maintel pays out -7,291.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bigblu Broadband pays out -128,571.4% 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. Bigblu Broadband is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Maintel has a net margin of -7.47% compared to Bigblu Broadband's net margin of -13.53%. Bigblu Broadband's return on equity of -31.82% beat Maintel's return on equity.
Bigblu Broadband has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maintel. Bigblu Broadband is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Maintel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bigblu Broadband beats Maintel on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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