CLS vs. DSG, OTEX, KXS, NVEI, BB, LSPD, GIB.A, HPS.A, ENGH, and DCBO
Should you be buying Celestica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celestica include The Descartes Systems Group (DSG), Open Text (OTEX), Kinaxis (KXS), Nuvei (NVEI), BlackBerry (BB), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), CGI (GIB.A), Hammond Power Solutions (HPS.A), Enghouse Systems (ENGH), and Docebo (DCBO). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
The Descartes Systems Group (TSE:DSG) and Celestica (TSE:CLS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
The Descartes Systems Group has a net margin of 20.23% compared to The Descartes Systems Group's net margin of 3.86%. The Descartes Systems Group's return on equity of 19.10% beat Celestica's return on equity.
The Descartes Systems Group currently has a consensus price target of C$89.67, suggesting a potential downside of 32.72%. Celestica has a consensus price target of C$38.33, suggesting a potential downside of 45.42%. Given Celestica's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe The Descartes Systems Group is more favorable than Celestica.
The Descartes Systems Group has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celestica has a beta of 2.35, indicating that its share price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Celestica had 3 more articles in the media than The Descartes Systems Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Celestica and 0 mentions for The Descartes Systems Group. The Descartes Systems Group's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Celestica's score of 0.00 indicating that Celestica is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.8% of The Descartes Systems Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.6% of Celestica shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of The Descartes Systems Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Celestica shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
The Descartes Systems Group received 157 more outperform votes than Celestica when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.01% of users gave The Descartes Systems Group an outperform vote while only 56.20% of users gave Celestica an outperform vote.
Celestica has higher revenue and earnings than The Descartes Systems Group. Celestica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Descartes Systems Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Celestica beats The Descartes Systems Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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