SAA vs. SFOR, NEXN, PEBB, CAU, SYS1, NFG, RCH, CCPC, TMO, and LBG
Should you be buying M&C Saatchi stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M&C Saatchi include S4 Capital (SFOR), Nexxen International (NEXN), The Pebble Group (PEBB), Centaur Media (CAU), System1 Group (SYS1), Next 15 Group (NFG), Reach (RCH), Celtic (CCPC), Time Out Group (TMO), and LBG Media (LBG). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
M&C Saatchi (LON:SAA) and S4 Capital (LON:SFOR) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
M&C Saatchi has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S4 Capital has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, M&C Saatchi had 2 more articles in the media than S4 Capital. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for M&C Saatchi and 0 mentions for S4 Capital. M&C Saatchi's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat S4 Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that M&C Saatchi is being referred to more favorably in the media.
65.5% of M&C Saatchi shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.3% of S4 Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.0% of M&C Saatchi shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of S4 Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
M&C Saatchi has higher earnings, but lower revenue than S4 Capital. M&C Saatchi is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S4 Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S4 Capital has a net margin of -0.59% compared to M&C Saatchi's net margin of -0.78%. S4 Capital's return on equity of -0.70% beat M&C Saatchi's return on equity.
S4 Capital has a consensus price target of GBX 180, indicating a potential upside of 283.30%. Given S4 Capital's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe S4 Capital is more favorable than M&C Saatchi.
M&C Saatchi received 115 more outperform votes than S4 Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.76% of users gave S4 Capital an outperform vote while only 69.66% of users gave M&C Saatchi an outperform vote.
Summary
M&C Saatchi beats S4 Capital on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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