POS vs. PRES, NTQ, GTC, CEG, BOIL, GCM, PXEN, SOUC, SOU, and PMG
Should you be buying Plexus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plexus include Pressure Technologies (PRES), Enteq Technologies (NTQ), Getech Group (GTC), Challenger Energy Group (CEG), Baron Oil (BOIL), GCM Resources (GCM), Prospex Energy (PXEN), Southern Energy (SOUC), Sound Energy (SOU), and The Parkmead Group (PMG). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Pressure Technologies (LON:PRES) and Plexus (LON:POS) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
Plexus has a net margin of 4.72% compared to Plexus' net margin of -2.13%. Pressure Technologies' return on equity of 1.97% beat Plexus' return on equity.
In the previous week, Pressure Technologies had 6 more articles in the media than Plexus. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Pressure Technologies and 2 mentions for Plexus. Plexus' average media sentiment score of -0.22 beat Pressure Technologies' score of -0.94 indicating that Pressure Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Plexus received 75 more outperform votes than Pressure Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.18% of users gave Plexus an outperform vote while only 69.84% of users gave Pressure Technologies an outperform vote.
69.5% of Pressure Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Pressure Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 62.5% of Plexus shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Pressure Technologies has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plexus has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pressure Technologies pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 21.3%. Plexus pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Pressure Technologies pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Pressure Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Plexus.
Summary
Pressure Technologies beats Plexus on 9 of the 16 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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