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Directa Plus (DCTA) Competitors

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GBX 7.48 +1.03 (+15.94%)
As of 02/21/2025 09:50 AM Eastern

DCTA vs. WCH, ITX, HDD, HAYD, BIOM, VRS, ESKN, ZED, 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), Haydale Graphene Industries (HAYD), Biome Technologies (BIOM), Versarien (VRS), Esken (ESKN), Zenova Group (ZED), Applied Graphene Materials (AGM), and Croda International (CRDA). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.

Directa Plus vs.

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

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
Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L)N/A N/A N/A
Directa Plus -48.00%-82.37%-22.41%

Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L)N/AN/AN/A-£0.60N/A
Directa Plus£20.29M0.50-£9.74M-£5.62-1.33

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

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

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

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

Summary

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

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DCTA vs. The Competition

MetricDirecta PlusSpecialty Chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£10.06M£9.80B£3.16B£2.63B
Dividend YieldN/A3.58%5.14%4.98%
P/E Ratio-1.3312.3393.51163.28
Price / Sales0.5057.9025,929,608,977,446,200.00312,084.15
Price / Cash7.5119.2524.3628.02
Price / Book0.846.894.935.14
Net Income-£9.74M£220.83M£152.67M£5.73B
7 Day Performance7.75%-1.62%-0.85%-0.99%
1 Month Performance24.63%0.66%2.17%-0.81%
1 Year Performance-61.25%-12.85%33.11%39.26%

Directa Plus Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DCTA
Directa Plus
N/AGBX 7.48
+15.9%
N/A-61.3%£10.06M£20.29M-1.33187Gap Down
High Trading Volume
WCH
Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£20.13MN/A-5.003
ITX
Itaconix
N/AGBX 122.25
-6.0%
N/A+3.9%£16.49M£6.62M-3,056.2517Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HDD
Hardide
N/AGBX 6.75
-5.2%
N/A+18.7%£5.30M£4.73M-225.0346News Coverage
Gap Down
HAYD
Haydale Graphene Industries
N/AGBX 0.11
-0.9%
N/A-75.0%£2.05M£4.99M-11.4067
BIOM
Biome Technologies
N/AGBX 3.16
+0.2%
N/A-98.4%£1.63M£5.75M-9.2827News Coverage
VRS
Versarien
N/AGBX 0.03
-5.6%
N/A-71.9%£792,000.00£5.32M-0.8570Gap Down
ESKN
Esken
N/AN/AN/AN/A£714,000.00£114.53M-0.88678Gap Down
ZED
Zenova Group
N/AGBX 0.46
-8.0%
N/A-90.1%£645,000.00£6,000.00-46.0011Gap Down
AGM
Applied Graphene Materials
N/AN/AN/AN/A£643,000.00£127,000.00-20.00160Gap Down
CRDA
Croda International
2.2044 of 5 stars
GBX 3,050
-1.2%
GBX 4,900
+60.7%
-34.9%£4.26B£1.63B2,606.845,852News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:DCTA) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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