Vela Technologies (VELA) Competitors

Third Point Investors (LON:TPOU) and Vela Technologies (LON:VELA) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, TPOU or VELA?

Third Point Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Vela Technologies.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Third Point Investors	£117.35M	0.04	£93.02M	£0.53	46.79
Vela Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is TPOU or VELA more profitable?

Third Point Investors has a net margin of 79.27% compared to Vela Technologies' net margin of 0.00%. Third Point Investors' return on equity of 16.33% beat Vela Technologies' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Third Point Investors	79.27%	16.33%	11.57%
Vela Technologies	N/A	-11.73%	-4.15%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in TPOU or VELA?

11.7% of Third Point Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.3% of Vela Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Third Point Investors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.6% of Vela Technologies shares are owned 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.

Which has more risk & volatility, TPOU or VELA?

Third Point Investors has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vela Technologies has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor TPOU or VELA?

Vela Technologies received 30 more outperform votes than Third Point Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.17% of users gave Vela Technologies an outperform vote while only 68.18% of users gave Third Point Investors an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Third Point Investors	Outperform Votes 30 68.18%	Underperform Votes 14 31.82%
Vela Technologies	Outperform Votes 60 73.17%	Underperform Votes 22 26.83%

Does the media favor TPOU or VELA?

In the previous week, Vela Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Third Point Investors. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Vela Technologies and 0 mentions for Third Point Investors. Vela Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Third Point Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Vela Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Third Point Investors	Neutral
Vela Technologies	Neutral

Summary

Third Point Investors beats Vela Technologies on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.