NCC vs. BIG, CER, ALFA, PBEE, IDOX, DOTD, ACSO, LTG, IQG, and TRCS
Should you be buying NCC Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NCC Group include Big Technologies (BIG), Cerillion (CER), Alfa Financial Software (ALFA), PensionBee Group (PBEE), IDOX (IDOX), dotdigital Group (DOTD), accesso Technology Group (ACSO), Learning Technologies Group (LTG), IQGeo Group (IQG), and Tracsis (TRCS). These companies are all part of the "software - application" industry.
Big Technologies (LON:BIG) and NCC Group (LON:NCC) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Big Technologies had 29 more articles in the media than NCC Group. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Big Technologies and 8 mentions for NCC Group. NCC Group's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Big Technologies' score of 0.26 indicating that Big Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Big Technologies currently has a consensus price target of GBX 345, suggesting a potential upside of 133.90%. NCC Group has a consensus price target of GBX 150, suggesting a potential upside of 14.16%. Given NCC Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Big Technologies is more favorable than NCC Group.
NCC Group received 511 more outperform votes than Big Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Big Technologies an outperform vote while only 80.06% of users gave NCC Group an outperform vote.
Big Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NCC Group. NCC 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.
Big Technologies has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NCC Group has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
38.5% of Big Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.5% of NCC Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 49.8% of Big Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of NCC Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Big Technologies has a net margin of 31.84% compared to Big Technologies' net margin of -4.39%. NCC Group's return on equity of 15.41% beat Big Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Big Technologies beats NCC Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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