MIDW vs. BIG, WPS, NCC, CER, PAY, FDM, FDP, ALFA, BOKU, and PBEE
Should you be buying Midwich Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Midwich Group include Big Technologies (BIG), W.A.G payment solutions (WPS), NCC Group (NCC), Cerillion (CER), PayPoint (PAY), FDM Group (FDM), FD Technologies (FDP), Alfa Financial Software (ALFA), Boku (BOKU), and PensionBee Group (PBEE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Big Technologies (LON:BIG) and Midwich Group (LON:MIDW) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Big Technologies has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Midwich Group has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Big Technologies currently has a consensus price target of GBX 345, suggesting a potential upside of 131.93%. Midwich Group has a consensus price target of GBX 710, suggesting a potential upside of 76.62%. Given Midwich Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Big Technologies is more favorable than Midwich Group.
In the previous week, Big Technologies had 29 more articles in the media than Midwich Group. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Big Technologies and 1 mentions for Midwich Group. Big Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Midwich Group's score of 0.10 indicating that Midwich Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Midwich Group has higher revenue and earnings than Big Technologies. Midwich Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Big Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
38.5% of Big Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Midwich Group shares are held by institutional investors. 49.8% of Big Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of Midwich Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Big Technologies has a net margin of 31.84% compared to Big Technologies' net margin of 2.08%. Big Technologies' return on equity of 17.52% beat Midwich Group's return on equity.
Midwich Group received 109 more outperform votes than Big Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Big Technologies an outperform vote while only 73.20% of users gave Midwich Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Big Technologies and Midwich Group tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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