GTLY vs. AFM, YOU, ELIX, FNTL, SAG, PPHC, RCDO, MANO, MJH, and SECN
Should you be buying Gateley stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gateley include Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), YouGov (YOU), Elixirr International (ELIX), Fintel (FNTL), Science Group (SAG), Public Policy (PPHC), Ricardo (RCDO), Manolete Partners (MANO), MJ Hudson Group (MJH), and SEC Newgate (SECN). These companies are all part of the "consulting services" industry.
Gateley vs.
Gateley (LON:GTLY) and Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (LON:AFM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and profitability.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a net margin of 6.78% compared to Gateley's net margin of 5.84%. Gateley's return on equity of 12.31% beat Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's return on equity.
34.4% of Gateley shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by institutional investors. 48.8% of Gateley shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Gateley. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gateley, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gateley received 65 more outperform votes than Alpha Financial Markets Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.53% of users gave Alpha Financial Markets Consulting an outperform vote while only 61.82% of users gave Gateley an outperform vote.
Gateley has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gateley pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share. Gateley pays out 129.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays out 10,769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Gateley is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Gateley's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's score of 0.00 indicating that Gateley is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a consensus price target of GBX 442.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is more favorable than Gateley.
Summary
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting beats Gateley on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:GTLY) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
