MRIT vs. GRC, TIA, IDE, MBO, ACT, PTY, CSFG, WISE, CCC, and FDP
Should you be buying Merit Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Merit Group include GRC International Group (GRC), Tialis Essential IT (TIA), IDE Group (IDE), MobilityOne (MBO), Actual Experience (ACT), Partway Group (PTY), CSF Group (CSFG), Wise (WISE), Computacenter (CCC), and FD Technologies (FDP). These companies are all part of the "information technology services" industry.
Merit Group vs.
GRC International Group (LON:GRC) and Merit Group (LON:MRIT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Merit Group has a net margin of 0.98% compared to GRC International Group's net margin of -10.52%. Merit Group's return on equity of 1.72% beat GRC International Group's return on equity.
GRC International Group received 2 more outperform votes than Merit Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Merit Group an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave GRC International Group an outperform vote.
Merit Group has a consensus price target of GBX 105, suggesting a potential upside of 400.00%. Given Merit Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Merit Group is more favorable than GRC International Group.
GRC International Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Merit Group. GRC International Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Merit Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Merit Group's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat GRC International Group's score of -0.55 indicating that Merit Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GRC International Group has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Merit Group has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
19.2% of GRC International Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.3% of Merit Group shares are held by institutional investors. 64.5% of GRC International Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 67.6% of Merit Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Merit Group beats GRC International Group on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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.
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This page (LON:MRIT) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
