HAYD vs. DCTA, HDD, BIOM, VRS, ESKN, AGM, ZED, CRDA, JMAT, and ELM
Should you be buying Haydale Graphene Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Haydale Graphene Industries include Directa Plus (DCTA), Hardide (HDD), Biome Technologies (BIOM), Versarien (VRS), Esken (ESKN), Applied Graphene Materials (AGM), Zenova Group (ZED), Croda International (CRDA), Johnson Matthey (JMAT), and Elementis (ELM). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
Haydale Graphene Industries vs.
Haydale Graphene Industries (LON:HAYD) 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 risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
37.8% of Haydale Graphene Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.5% of Directa Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of Haydale Graphene Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 57.9% of Directa Plus shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Haydale Graphene Industries has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Directa Plus has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Directa Plus has a net margin of -48.00% compared to Haydale Graphene Industries' net margin of -126.76%. Directa Plus' return on equity of -82.37% beat Haydale Graphene Industries' return on equity.
In the previous week, Haydale Graphene Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Directa Plus. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Haydale Graphene Industries and 0 mentions for Directa Plus. Haydale Graphene Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Directa Plus' score of 0.00 indicating that Haydale Graphene Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Haydale Graphene Industries received 103 more outperform votes than Directa Plus when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.39% of users gave Haydale Graphene Industries an outperform vote while only 67.55% of users gave Directa Plus an outperform vote.
Directa Plus has higher revenue and earnings than Haydale Graphene Industries. Directa Plus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Haydale Graphene Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Haydale Graphene Industries beats Directa Plus on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Haydale Graphene Industries News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for HAYD and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding {thisCompany.Symbol} and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Haydale Graphene Industries Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
This page (LON:HAYD) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
