SCT vs. WISE, CCC, FDM, FDP, RCN, KCT, IBPO, ECK, NASA, and SSY
Should you be buying Softcat stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Softcat include Wise (WISE), Computacenter (CCC), FDM Group (FDM), FD Technologies (FDP), Redcentric (RCN), Kin and Carta (KCT), iEnergizer (IBPO), Eckoh (ECK), Nasstar (NASA), and Scisys Group (SSY). These companies are all part of the "information technology services" industry.
Wise (LON:WISE) and Softcat (LON:SCT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
22.1% of Wise shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Softcat shares are held by institutional investors. 28.6% of Wise shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.9% of Softcat shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wise currently has a consensus target price of GBX 896.20, indicating a potential upside of 7.33%. Softcat has a consensus target price of GBX 1,532.50, indicating a potential downside of 10.22%. Given Softcat's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Wise is more favorable than Softcat.
Wise has a net margin of 18.05% compared to Wise's net margin of 12.04%. Wise's return on equity of 50.40% beat Softcat's return on equity.
In the previous week, Wise and Wise both had 2 articles in the media. Softcat's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Wise's score of 0.00 indicating that Wise is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wise has higher revenue and earnings than Softcat. Softcat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Softcat received 293 more outperform votes than Wise when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.29% of users gave Softcat an outperform vote while only 17.24% of users gave Wise an outperform vote.
Wise has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Softcat has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Softcat beats Wise on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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