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Directa Plus (DCTA) Competitors

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DCTA vs. WCH, ITX, HDD, BIOM, HAYD, VRS, ZED, ESKN, AGM, and CRDA

Should you be buying Directa Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Directa Plus include Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) (WCH), Itaconix (ITX), Hardide (HDD), Biome Technologies (BIOM), Haydale Graphene Industries (HAYD), Versarien (VRS), Zenova Group (ZED), Esken (ESKN), Applied Graphene Materials (AGM), and Croda International (CRDA). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.

Directa Plus vs.

Directa Plus (LON:DCTA) and Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) (LON:WCH) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

20.5% of Directa Plus shares are held by institutional investors. 57.9% of Directa Plus shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Directa Plus. Directa Plus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L), indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Directa Plus£9.33M0.84-£4.48M-£0.06-125.00
Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L)N/AN/AN/A-£0.60-5.00

In the previous week, Directa Plus' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L)'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Directa Plus Neutral
Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) Neutral

Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Directa Plus' net margin of -48.00%. Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L)'s return on equity of 0.00% beat Directa Plus' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Directa Plus-48.00% -67.15% -22.41%
Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) N/A N/A N/A

Directa Plus received 74 more outperform votes than Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.55% of users gave Directa Plus an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Directa PlusOutperform Votes
102
67.55%
Underperform Votes
49
32.45%
Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L)Outperform Votes
28
58.33%
Underperform Votes
20
41.67%

Summary

Directa Plus beats Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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DCTA vs. The Competition

MetricDirecta PlusSpecialty Chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.83M£7.61B£2.75B£1.40B
Dividend YieldN/A4.02%5.25%11.72%
P/E Ratio-125.00300.62118.251,555.82
Price / Sales0.84447.65778,384.38283,495.76
Price / Cash7.5118.0223.4532.92
Price / Book1.075.033.372.85
Net Income-£4.48M£133.33M£150.39M£152.61M
7 Day Performance-9.09%-2.13%-2.73%19.66%
1 Month Performance-16.67%-2.51%4.97%19.21%
1 Year Performance-72.22%-13.78%20.28%23.94%

Directa Plus Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DCTA
Directa Plus
N/AGBX 7.50
+3.4%
N/A-73.2%£7.83M£9.33M-125.00187
WCH
Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L)
N/AGBX 3
flat
N/AN/A£20.13MN/A-5.003
ITX
Itaconix
N/AGBX 122
-2.2%
N/A+16.2%£16.46M£6.62M-3,150.0017
HDD
Hardide
N/AGBX 4.75
-5.0%
N/A-56.7%£3.73M£4.73M-160.0046
BIOM
Biome Technologies
N/AGBX 4.60
-7.8%
N/A-95.9%£2.37M£5.75M-13.2427High Trading Volume
HAYD
Haydale Graphene Industries
N/AGBX 0.13
-3.1%
N/A-72.3%£2.27M£4.99M-12.5067Gap Down
High Trading Volume
VRS
Versarien
N/AGBX 0.04
+18.8%
N/A-90.0%£885,000.00£5.32M-0.9570Gap Up
High Trading Volume
ZED
Zenova Group
N/AGBX 0.57
-9.1%
N/A-83.3%£797,000.00£6,000.00-62.5011Gap Up
ESKN
Esken
N/AN/AN/A-95.1%£714,000.00£114.53M-0.88678Gap Down
AGM
Applied Graphene Materials
N/AGBX 1
-81.0%
N/AN/A£643,000.00£127,000.00-20.00160Gap Down
CRDA
Croda International
2.7106 of 5 stars
GBX 3,464
+1.7%
GBX 4,900
+41.5%
-34.5%£4.84B£1.63B2,911.185,852

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This page (LON:DCTA) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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