XPP vs. LUCE, CWR, SUP, AFC, DIA, TFW, VLX, ASY, VP, and GFRD
Should you be buying XP Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XP Power include Luceco (LUCE), Ceres Power (CWR), Supreme (SUP), AFC Energy (AFC), Dialight (DIA), FW Thorpe (TFW), Volex (VLX), Andrews Sykes Group (ASY), VP (VP), and Galliford Try (GFRD). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
XP Power (LON:XPP) and Luceco (LON:LUCE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
XP Power presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,473.33, indicating a potential upside of 30.61%. Given XP Power's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe XP Power is more favorable than Luceco.
In the previous week, XP Power's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Luceco'saverage media sentiment score.
XP Power received 132 more outperform votes than Luceco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.73% of users gave XP Power an outperform vote while only 68.42% of users gave Luceco an outperform vote.
65.6% of XP Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of Luceco shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of XP Power shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.8% of Luceco shares are held 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.
Luceco has a net margin of 7.99% compared to XP Power's net margin of -2.91%. Luceco's return on equity of 18.50% beat XP Power's return on equity.
Luceco has lower revenue, but higher earnings than XP Power. XP Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Luceco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
XP Power pays an annual dividend of GBX 94 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Luceco pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. XP Power pays out -20,888.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Luceco pays out 4,545.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. XP Power is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
XP Power has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Luceco has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
XP Power beats Luceco on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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