PPHC vs. GTLY, SAG, MANO, ELIX, RCDO, FNTL, AFM, AFC, ECEL, and FSJ
Should you be buying Public Policy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Public Policy include Gateley (GTLY), Science Group (SAG), Manolete Partners (MANO), Elixirr International (ELIX), Ricardo (RCDO), Fintel (FNTL), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), AFC Energy (AFC), Eurocell (ECEL), and James Fisher and Sons (FSJ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Public Policy (LON:PPHC) and Gateley (LON:GTLY) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Gateley has higher revenue and earnings than Public Policy. Public Policy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gateley, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Public Policy has a beta of 0.06, meaning that its stock price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gateley has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
8.7% of Public Policy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.8% of Gateley shares are held by institutional investors. 54.5% of Public Policy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 46.4% of Gateley 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.
In the previous week, Gateley had 2 more articles in the media than Public Policy. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Gateley and 0 mentions for Public Policy. Public Policy's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Gateley'saverage media sentiment score.
Public Policy pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Gateley pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Public Policy pays out -12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gateley pays out 9,090.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Public Policy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Gateley has a net margin of 8.15% compared to Public Policy's net margin of -10.55%. Gateley's return on equity of 17.44% beat Public Policy's return on equity.
Gateley received 136 more outperform votes than Public Policy when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Gateley beats Public Policy on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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