YOU vs. NFG, ASCL, NEXN, SFOR, FOUR, HTWS, KWS, BCG, MONY, and FUTR
Should you be buying YouGov stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of YouGov include Next 15 Group (NFG), Ascential (ASCL), Nexxen International (NEXN), S4 Capital (SFOR), 4imprint Group (FOUR), Helios Towers (HTWS), Keywords Studios (KWS), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY), and Future (FUTR). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Next 15 Group (LON:NFG) and YouGov (LON:YOU) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
77.7% of Next 15 Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.1% of YouGov shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Next 15 Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of YouGov shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Next 15 Group has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YouGov has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Next 15 Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. YouGov pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Next 15 Group pays out 3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. YouGov pays out 4,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Next 15 Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
YouGov has a net margin of 8.41% compared to YouGov's net margin of 7.20%. YouGov's return on equity of 39.87% beat Next 15 Group's return on equity.
Next 15 Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,446.67, suggesting a potential upside of 49.76%. YouGov has a consensus price target of GBX 1,350, suggesting a potential upside of 61.87%. Given Next 15 Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe YouGov is more favorable than Next 15 Group.
YouGov received 214 more outperform votes than Next 15 Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 88.89% of users gave Next 15 Group an outperform vote while only 67.27% of users gave YouGov an outperform vote.
In the previous week, YouGov had 4 more articles in the media than Next 15 Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for YouGov and 1 mentions for Next 15 Group. YouGov's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Next 15 Group's score of -0.17 indicating that Next 15 Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Next 15 Group has higher revenue and earnings than YouGov. Next 15 Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YouGov, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Next 15 Group beats YouGov on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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