PEG vs. IGE, NWT, WSG, CSSG, FA, AUK, LIB, CEPS, LIFS, and EQT
Should you be buying Petards Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petards Group include Image Scan (IGE), Newmark Security (NWT), Westminster Group (WSG), Croma Security Solutions Group (CSSG), FireAngel Safety Technology Group (FA), Aukett Swanke Group (AUK), Libertine (LIB), Ceps (CEPS), LifeSafe (LIFS), and EQTEC (EQT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Image Scan (LON:IGE) and Petards Group (LON:PEG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Image Scan received 11 more outperform votes than Petards Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.30% of users gave Image Scan an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Petards Group an outperform vote.
Image Scan has a net margin of 4.18% compared to Image Scan's net margin of 1.25%. Petards Group's return on equity of 8.55% beat Image Scan's return on equity.
In the previous week, Image Scan and Image Scan both had 1 articles in the media. Petards Group's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Image Scan's score of 0.00 indicating that Image Scan is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Image Scan has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petards Group has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
5.7% of Image Scan shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.6% of Petards Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 83.8% of Image Scan shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 56.2% of Petards Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Image Scan beats Petards Group on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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