FORA vs. BRAG, Y, WILD, EAGR, CGO, CGX, EGLX, TGO, GVC, and CCA
Should you be buying VerticalScope stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VerticalScope include Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG), Yellow Pages (Y), WildBrain (WILD), East Side Games Group (EAGR), Cogeco (CGO), Cineplex (CGX), Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX), TeraGo (TGO), Glacier Media (GVC), and Cogeco Communications (CCA). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
VerticalScope (TSE:FORA) and Bragg Gaming Group (TSE:BRAG) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Bragg Gaming Group has a net margin of -4.10% compared to VerticalScope's net margin of -8.13%. Bragg Gaming Group's return on equity of -5.49% beat VerticalScope's return on equity.
VerticalScope currently has a consensus price target of C$12.37, indicating a potential upside of 44.30%. Given VerticalScope's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe VerticalScope is more favorable than Bragg Gaming Group.
10.0% of VerticalScope shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.7% of Bragg Gaming Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.2% of VerticalScope shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.0% of Bragg Gaming Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
VerticalScope has a beta of 0.03, suggesting that its share price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bragg Gaming Group has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bragg Gaming Group has higher revenue and earnings than VerticalScope. Bragg Gaming Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VerticalScope, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VerticalScope received 17 more outperform votes than Bragg Gaming Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Bragg Gaming Group an outperform vote while only 48.94% of users gave VerticalScope an outperform vote.
In the previous week, VerticalScope had 8 more articles in the media than Bragg Gaming Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for VerticalScope and 3 mentions for Bragg Gaming Group. Bragg Gaming Group's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat VerticalScope's score of 0.39 indicating that Bragg Gaming Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Bragg Gaming Group beats VerticalScope on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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