DCTA vs. ITX, WCH, HDD, BIOM, HAYD, ZED, VRS, ESKN, AGM, and CRDA
Should you be buying Directa Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Directa Plus include Itaconix (ITX), Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) (WCH), Hardide (HDD), Biome Technologies (BIOM), Haydale Graphene Industries (HAYD), Zenova Group (ZED), Versarien (VRS), 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 Itaconix (LON:ITX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and earnings.
Directa Plus has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Itaconix has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Itaconix has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Directa Plus. Itaconix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Directa Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
20.5% of Directa Plus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.2% of Itaconix shares are held by institutional investors. 57.9% of Directa Plus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.9% of Itaconix 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.
In the previous week, Directa Plus' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Itaconix'saverage media sentiment score.
Itaconix has a net margin of -28.28% compared to Directa Plus' net margin of -48.00%. Itaconix's return on equity of -17.09% beat Directa Plus' return on equity.
Directa Plus received 3 more outperform votes than Itaconix when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.81% of users gave Itaconix an outperform vote while only 67.55% of users gave Directa Plus an outperform vote.
Summary
Itaconix beats Directa Plus on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:DCTA) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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