IKA vs. LUCE, SUP, XPP, CWR, DWHT, DWHA, AFC, DIA, EAAS, and GELN
Should you be buying Ilika stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ilika include Luceco (LUCE), Supreme (SUP), XP Power (XPP), Ceres Power (CWR), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), AFC Energy (AFC), Dialight (DIA), eEnergy Group (EAAS), and Gelion (GELN). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment & parts" industry.
Ilika vs.
Ilika (LON:IKA) and Luceco (LON:LUCE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
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.
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.
50.1% of Ilika shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.7% of Luceco shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Ilika shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 57.8% of Luceco shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ilika has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Luceco has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ilika and Ilika both had 1 articles in the media. Ilika's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Luceco's score of 0.00 indicating that Ilika is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ilika currently has a consensus target price of GBX 100, suggesting a potential upside of 177.78%. Given Ilika's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ilika is more favorable than Luceco.
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.
Summary
Ilika beats Luceco on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:IKA) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff