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Ilika (IKA) Competitors

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GBX 38.20 +0.70 (+1.87%)
As of 04/1/2025 12:47 PM Eastern

IKA vs. LUCE, XPP, SUP, CWR, DWHA, DWHT, AFC, DIA, EAAS, and GELN

Should you be buying Ilika stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ilika include Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Supreme (SUP), Ceres Power (CWR), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), AFC Energy (AFC), Dialight (DIA), eEnergy Group (EAAS), and Gelion (GELN). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment & parts" industry.

Ilika vs.

Luceco (LON:LUCE) and Ilika (LON:IKA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.

23.7% of Luceco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.1% of Ilika shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.8% of Luceco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Ilika shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Ilika received 88 more outperform votes than Luceco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.96% of users gave Ilika an outperform vote while only 68.42% of users gave Luceco an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
LucecoOutperform Votes
143
68.42%
Underperform Votes
66
31.58%
IlikaOutperform Votes
231
68.96%
Underperform Votes
104
31.04%

Luceco has a net margin of 8.41% compared to Ilika's net margin of -631.68%. Luceco's return on equity of 19.86% beat Ilika's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Luceco8.41% 19.86% 8.58%
Ilika -631.68%-22.47%-15.68%

In the previous week, Luceco had 6 more articles in the media than Ilika. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Luceco and 0 mentions for Ilika. Luceco's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Ilika's score of 0.00 indicating that Luceco is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Luceco Positive
Ilika Neutral

Luceco has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ilika has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Luceco has higher revenue and earnings than Ilika. Ilika is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Luceco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Luceco£227.36M0.90£19.13M£11.8710.70
Ilika£799.03K79.76-£5.05M-£3.03-12.59

Ilika has a consensus target price of GBX 100, suggesting a potential upside of 161.78%. Given Ilika's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ilika is more favorable than Luceco.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Luceco
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Ilika
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

Luceco beats Ilika on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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IKA vs. The Competition

MetricIlikaElectrical Equipment & Parts IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£63.73M£3.39B£6.82B£2.57B
Dividend Yield0.76%3.67%3.55%4.95%
P/E Ratio-12.597.5721.72140.12
Price / Sales79.76996.8376.13262,597.20
Price / Cash1.9612.3626.7827.90
Price / Book2.993.063.644.54
Net Income-£5.05M-£42.19M£793.46M£5.76B
7 Day Performance5.38%-1.47%-1.01%0.34%
1 Month Performance-12.18%-5.52%-1.73%5.74%
1 Year Performance36.92%-2.36%17.08%107.79%

Ilika Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IKA
Ilika
N/AGBX 38.20
+1.9%
GBX 100
+161.8%
+36.9%£63.73M£799,031.68-12.5972Gap Down
LUCE
Luceco
N/AGBX 144.13
+1.5%
N/A-8.8%£231.71M£227.36M12.151,504Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
XPP
XP Power
2.5166 of 5 stars
GBX 802
+0.9%
GBX 1,440
+79.6%
-30.2%£194.03M£289.20M-13.272,435News Coverage
Gap Down
SUP
Supreme
N/AGBX 150
-3.8%
N/A+23.2%£174.63M£219.82M7.827,800
CWR
Ceres Power
2.5673 of 5 stars
GBX 63.25
+4.2%
GBX 340
+437.5%
-61.4%£123.30M£39.90M-3.06591Negative News
Gap Up
DWHA
Dewhurst Group
N/AGBX 567
+2.2%
N/A-12.8%£70.17M£93.67M8.64338Gap Up
DWHT
Dewhurst Group
N/AGBX 1,050
-2.3%
N/A+1.0%£69.71M£50.25M8.58338Dividend Increase
News Coverage
Gap Down
AFC
AFC Energy
2.9942 of 5 stars
GBX 5.87
-9.7%
GBX 4,000
+68,054.7%
-64.0%£50.22M£497,288.65-2.24120High Trading Volume
DIA
Dialight
N/AGBX 120
-3.6%
N/A-29.5%£47.80M£160.31M-2.071,358Gap Down
EAAS
eEnergy Group
2.4158 of 5 stars
GBX 4.50
+3.4%
GBX 12
+166.7%
-24.2%£17.43M£19.19M-4.02131Positive News
Gap Up
GELN
Gelion
N/AGBX 9.50
-7.3%
N/A-25.2%£12.05MN/A-1.4543Positive News
Gap Up
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This page (LON:IKA) was last updated on 4/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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