Centaur Media (CAU) Competitors

System1 Group (LON:SYS1) and Centaur Media (LON:CAU) 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, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, SYS1 or CAU?

Centaur Media has higher revenue and earnings than System1 Group. Centaur Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than System1 Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
System1 Group	£30.02M	2.58	£2.03M	£0.16	3,812.50
Centaur Media	£35.95M	0.97	£4.65M	£0.03	800.00

Do analysts prefer SYS1 or CAU?

System1 Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 840, indicating a potential upside of 37.70%. Given System1 Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe System1 Group is more favorable than Centaur Media.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
System1 Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Centaur Media	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Is SYS1 or CAU more profitable?

Centaur Media has a net margin of 11.29% compared to System1 Group's net margin of 6.77%. System1 Group's return on equity of 21.21% beat Centaur Media's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
System1 Group	6.77%	21.21%	11.37%
Centaur Media	11.29%	10.71%	6.26%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in SYS1 or CAU?

47.1% of System1 Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.0% of Centaur Media shares are held by institutional investors. 37.5% of System1 Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Centaur Media shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer SYS1 or CAU?

In the previous week, System1 Group had 1 more articles in the media than Centaur Media. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for System1 Group and 0 mentions for Centaur Media. System1 Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Centaur Media'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
System1 Group	Neutral
Centaur Media	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community favor SYS1 or CAU?

Centaur Media received 323 more outperform votes than System1 Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.56% of users gave Centaur Media an outperform vote while only 64.84% of users gave System1 Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
System1 Group	Outperform Votes 118 64.84%	Underperform Votes 64 35.16%
Centaur Media	Outperform Votes 441 76.56%	Underperform Votes 135 23.44%

Which has more risk & volatility, SYS1 or CAU?

System1 Group has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centaur Media has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is SYS1 or CAU a better dividend stock?

System1 Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Centaur Media pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. System1 Group pays out 3,125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Centaur Media pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

System1 Group beats Centaur Media on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.