Volex (VLX) Competitors

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

Is CLSN or VLX more profitable?

Volex has a net margin of 4.30% compared to Calisen's net margin of 0.00%. Volex's return on equity of 14.15% beat Calisen's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Calisen	N/A	N/A	N/A
Volex	4.30%	14.15%	6.30%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CLSN or VLX?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Calisen	Outperform Votes 10 90.91%	Underperform Votes 1 9.09%
Volex	Outperform Votes 237 75.72%	Underperform Votes 76 24.28%

Do analysts recommend CLSN or VLX?

Volex has a consensus price target of GBX 415, indicating a potential upside of 35.40%. Given Volex's stronger consensus rating and higher probable 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)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the media favor CLSN or VLX?

In the previous week, Volex had 3 more articles in the media than Calisen. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Volex and 0 mentions for Calisen. Calisen's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Volex's score of -0.47 indicating that Calisen is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Calisen	Neutral
Volex	Neutral

Which has higher valuation and earnings, CLSN or VLX?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Calisen	£248.10M	0.00	N/A	-£5.50	N/A
Volex	£912.80M	0.61	£39.30M	£0.16	1,915.63

Do insiders & institutionals believe in CLSN or VLX?

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

Summary

Volex beats Calisen on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.