Maintel (MAI) Competitors

Bigblu Broadband (LON:BBB) and Maintel (LON:MAI) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.

Which has better valuation and earnings, BBB or MAI?

Bigblu Broadband has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Maintel. Maintel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bigblu Broadband, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bigblu Broadband	£24.16M	0.62	-£1.49M	-£0.03	-850.00
Maintel	£100.41M	0.34	-£2.53M	-£0.18	-1,332.22

Which has more risk and volatility, BBB or MAI?

Bigblu Broadband has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maintel has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend BBB or MAI?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bigblu Broadband	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Maintel	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BBB or MAI?

Maintel received 51 more outperform votes than Bigblu Broadband when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.65% of users gave Bigblu Broadband an outperform vote while only 53.01% of users gave Maintel an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Bigblu Broadband	Outperform Votes 46 67.65%	Underperform Votes 22 32.35%
Maintel	Outperform Votes 97 53.01%	Underperform Votes 86 46.99%

Is BBB or MAI more profitable?

Maintel has a net margin of -2.52% compared to Bigblu Broadband's net margin of -19.83%. Maintel's return on equity of -16.30% beat Bigblu Broadband's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bigblu Broadband	-19.83%	-16.94%	-6.57%
Maintel	-2.52%	-16.30%	2.89%

Do insiders and institutionals believe in BBB or MAI?

54.1% of Bigblu Broadband shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.5% of Maintel shares are held by institutional investors. 22.3% of Bigblu Broadband shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 62.9% of Maintel shares are held by 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.

Does the media refer more to BBB or MAI?

In the previous week, Bigblu Broadband's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Maintel's score of 0.00 indicating that Bigblu Broadband is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Bigblu Broadband	Positive
Maintel	Neutral

Is BBB or MAI a better dividend stock?

Bigblu Broadband pays an annual dividend of GBX 90 per share and has a dividend yield of 352.9%. Maintel pays an annual dividend of GBX 35 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.6%. Bigblu Broadband pays out -300,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Maintel pays out -19,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Bigblu Broadband is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Bigblu Broadband beats Maintel on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.