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Volex (VLX) Competitors

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GBX 257 -6.00 (-2.28%)
As of 03/28/2025 12:41 PM Eastern

VLX vs. CLSN, SMS, TFW, LUCE, XPP, SUP, CWR, DWHT, DWHA, and IKA

Should you be buying Volex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Volex include Calisen (CLSN), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), FW Thorpe (TFW), Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Supreme (SUP), Ceres Power (CWR), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), and Ilika (IKA). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment & parts" industry.

Volex vs.

Calisen (LON:CLSN) and Volex (LON:VLX) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Calisen£248.10M0.00N/A-£5.50N/A
Volex£1.29B0.46£54.37M£18.5813.83

Volex has a net margin of 4.21% compared to Calisen's net margin of 0.00%. Volex's return on equity of 12.97% beat Calisen's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CalisenN/A N/A N/A
Volex 4.21%12.97%6.30%

Volex has a consensus price target of GBX 400, indicating a potential upside of 55.64%. Given Volex's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Volex is more favorable than Calisen.

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

Volex received 227 more outperform votes than Calisen when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.91% of users gave Calisen an outperform vote while only 75.72% of users gave Volex an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
CalisenOutperform Votes
10
90.91%
Underperform Votes
1
9.09%
VolexOutperform Votes
237
75.72%
Underperform Votes
76
24.28%

35.0% of Volex shares are held by institutional investors. 32.8% of Volex shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Volex had 1 more articles in the media than Calisen. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Volex and 0 mentions for Calisen. Calisen's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Volex's score of -1.10 indicating that Calisen is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Calisen Neutral
Volex Negative

Summary

Volex beats Calisen on 13 of the 15 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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VLX vs. The Competition

MetricVolexElectrical Equipment & Parts IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£596.07M£3.68B£6.87B£2.61B
Dividend Yield1.21%3.67%3.53%4.82%
P/E Ratio13.837.7620.74141.38
Price / Sales0.46960.4575.49283,159.35
Price / Cash16.4812.3626.8728.02
Price / Book1.353.113.704.62
Net Income£54.37M-£42.19M£795.56M£5.81B
7 Day Performance-6.38%-1.70%-0.75%1.42%
1 Month Performance-4.81%-5.13%-1.13%7.35%
1 Year Performance-10.76%2.57%18.22%112.38%

Volex Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VLX
Volex
3.047 of 5 stars
GBX 257
-2.3%
GBX 400
+55.6%
-10.8%£596.07M£1.29B13.8312,000Negative News
CLSN
Calisen
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.43B£248.10M-47.421,748
SMS
Smart Metering Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.27B£135.52M8,654.551,361News Coverage
TFW
FW Thorpe
N/AGBX 297
flat
N/A-23.1%£349.91M£176.56M14.39900
LUCE
Luceco
N/AGBX 142
-1.4%
N/A-2.1%£228.30M£227.36M11.971,504Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
News Coverage
XPP
XP Power
N/AGBX 795
-1.5%
GBX 1,440
+81.1%
-24.6%£192.34M£289.20M-13.152,435High Trading Volume
SUP
Supreme
N/AGBX 156
+3.3%
N/A+21.9%£181.62M£219.82M8.147,800
CWR
Ceres Power
2.6082 of 5 stars
GBX 60.70
-7.8%
GBX 340
+460.1%
-61.0%£118.33M£39.90M-2.94591
DWHT
Dewhurst Group
N/AGBX 1,075
flat
N/A+1.8%£71.37M£50.25M8.79338Dividend Increase
Gap Down
DWHA
Dewhurst Group
N/AGBX 567
+2.2%
N/A-14.6%£70.17M£93.67M8.64338Gap Up
IKA
Ilika
N/AGBX 36.90
-2.9%
GBX 100
+171.0%
+37.6%£61.56M£799,031.68-12.1672Gap Down
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This page (LON:VLX) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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