ZEG vs. GAMA, HTWS, AAF, FOUR, ASCL, MONY, SONG, BCG, KWS, and YOU 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), 4imprint Group (FOUR), Ascential (ASCL), Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY), Hipgnosis Songs (SONG), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), Keywords Studios (KWS), and YouGov (YOU). 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 better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
Zegona Communications pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Gamma Communications pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Zegona Communications pays out -3,846.2% 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.
21.6% of Zegona Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 received 75 more outperform votes than Zegona Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.66% of users gave Gamma Communications an outperform vote while only 68.94% of users gave Zegona Communications an outperform vote.
Zegona Communications currently has a consensus price target of GBX 450, suggesting a potential upside of 93.97%. Gamma Communications has a consensus price target of GBX 2,035, suggesting a potential upside of 37.96%. Given Zegona Communications' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Zegona Communications is more favorable than Gamma Communications.
In the previous week, Gamma Communications had 5 more articles in the media than Zegona Communications. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Gamma Communications and 5 mentions for Zegona Communications. Zegona Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Gamma Communications' score of 0.10 indicating that Zegona Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Zegona Communications has a beta of 2.67, meaning that its share price is 167% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gamma Communications has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary Gamma Communications beats Zegona Communications on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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