ZEG vs. GAMA, HTWS, AAF, ASCL, SONG, MONY, BCG, FOUR, YOU, and KWS
Should you be buying Zegona Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zegona Communications include Gamma Communications (GAMA), Helios Towers (HTWS), Airtel Africa (AAF), Ascential (ASCL), Hipgnosis Songs (SONG), Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), 4imprint Group (FOUR), YouGov (YOU), and Keywords Studios (KWS). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Zegona Communications (LON:ZEG) and Gamma Communications (LON:GAMA) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Zegona Communications has a beta of 2.68, suggesting that its share price is 168% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gamma Communications has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Zegona Communications currently has a consensus target price of GBX 450, suggesting a potential upside of 106.42%. Gamma Communications has a consensus target price of GBX 2,035, suggesting a potential upside of 45.77%. Given Zegona Communications' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Zegona Communications is more favorable than Gamma Communications.
Zegona Communications pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Gamma Communications pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Zegona Communications pays out -1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gamma Communications pays out 3,090.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Zegona Communications is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
21.4% of Zegona Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.6% of Gamma Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 74.6% of Zegona Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Gamma Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Zegona Communications and Zegona Communications both had 1 articles in the media. Gamma Communications' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Zegona Communications' score of 0.34 indicating that Gamma Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gamma Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Zegona Communications. Zegona Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gamma Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gamma Communications has a net margin of 10.27% compared to Zegona Communications' net margin of 0.00%. Gamma Communications' return on equity of 16.68% beat Zegona Communications' return on equity.
Gamma Communications received 76 more outperform votes than Zegona Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.66% of users gave Gamma Communications an outperform vote while only 68.75% of users gave Zegona Communications an outperform vote.
Summary
Gamma Communications beats Zegona Communications on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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