NXQ vs. XAR, CNC, SPSY, BGO, FTC, WNWD, TRB, BKS, CLBS, and ELCO
Should you be buying Nexteq stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nexteq include Xaar (XAR), Concurrent Technologies (CNC), Spectra Systems (SPSY), Bango (BGO), Filtronic (FTC), Windward (WNWD), Tribal Group (TRB), Beeks Financial Cloud Group (BKS), Celebrus Technologies (CLBS), and Eleco (ELCO). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Xaar (LON:XAR) and Nexteq (LON:NXQ) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Xaar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Nexteq pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Xaar pays out -26,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nexteq pays out 2,307.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Xaar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Nexteq has higher revenue and earnings than Xaar. Xaar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nexteq, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nexteq had 1 more articles in the media than Xaar. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Nexteq and 0 mentions for Xaar. Xaar's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Nexteq's score of 0.00 indicating that Nexteq is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Xaar received 267 more outperform votes than Nexteq when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Nexteq an outperform vote while only 59.52% of users gave Xaar an outperform vote.
Nexteq has a net margin of 9.53% compared to Nexteq's net margin of -3.08%. Xaar's return on equity of 14.10% beat Nexteq's return on equity.
Xaar has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nexteq has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nexteq has a consensus target price of GBX 300, indicating a potential upside of 101.34%. Given Xaar's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nexteq is more favorable than Xaar.
81.4% of Xaar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.1% of Nexteq shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of Xaar shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.4% of Nexteq shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nexteq beats Xaar on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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