Compare Lesaka to Priority, CSG, Sangoma, NetScout, Consensus, EngageSmart

Comparing Lesaka to Priority, CSG, Sangoma, NetScout, Consensus, EngageSmart can provide valuable insights into potential diversification opportunities when combining these positions into a portfolio. By using this module, you can analyze the advantages of specified entities, assessing both technical and fundamental indicators across various peers. Please use the input box below to enter the symbols for specific investments you'd like to analyze. Check out your portfolio center.

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Correlation Matrix

Typically, diversification allows investors to combine positions across different asset classes to reduce overall portfolio risk. Correlation between positions in your portfolio represents the degree of relationship between the price movements of corresponding instruments. A correlation of about +1.0 implies that the prices move in tandem. A correlation of -1.0 means that prices move in opposite directions. A correlation of close to zero suggests that the price movements of assets are uncorrelated.

	LSAK	PRTH	CSGS	SANG	NTCT	CCSI	ESMT
LSAK		0.05	0.4	0.58	0.54	0.17	0.35	LSAK
PRTH	0.05		0.57	0.47	0.59	0.6	0.5	PRTH
CSGS	0.4	0.57		0.64	0.76	0.51	0.37	CSGS
SANG	0.58	0.47	0.64		0.61	0.48	0.66	SANG
NTCT	0.54	0.59	0.76	0.61		0.59	0.35	NTCT
CCSI	0.17	0.6	0.51	0.48	0.59		0.21	CCSI
ESMT	0.35	0.5	0.37	0.66	0.35	0.21		ESMT
	LSAK	PRTH	CSGS	SANG	NTCT	CCSI	ESMT

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between a company's stock performing well and the company itself doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.

	Mean Deviation	Jensen Alpha	Sortino Ratio	Treynor Ratio	Semi Deviation	Expected Shortfall	Potential Upside	Value @Risk	Maximum Drawdown
LSAK	2.02	0.41	0.06	(0.89)	2.45	(2.23)	6.07	(4.21)	18.75
PRTH	3.72	0.00	0.10	0.17	3.94	(4.18)	10.92	(5.65)	20.29
CSGS	1.16	0.04	0.07	0.20	0.91	(1.37)	2.65	(1.83)	11.06
SANG	2.20	0.39	0.09	4.93	2.28	(2.83)	5.32	(3.85)	21.17
NTCT	1.56	(0.01)	0.08	0.16	1.50	(1.77)	3.60	(2.84)	7.96
CCSI	2.18	0.16	0.16	0.24	1.93	(2.62)	6.28	(3.47)	12.46
ESMT	1.57	0.02	(0.03)	0.21	1.90	(1.59)	3.90	(2.93)	9.34

Cross Equities Net Income Analysis

Compare Lesaka Technologies, Priority Technology, and CSG Systems International Net Income Over Time

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	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
LSAK	(267.2 K)	44.7 M	13 M	70.1 M	94.7 M	82.5 M	73 M	39.1 M	(306.8 M)	(67.7 M)	(13.2 M)	(40.2 M)	(35.1 M)	(17.4 M)	(16.6 M)
PRTH	9.3 M	9.3 M	9.3 M	9.3 M	9.3 M	9.3 M	(108 K)	4.6 M	(15 M)	(33.6 M)	71.1 M	1.4 M	(2.1 M)	(1.3 M)	(1.2 M)
CSGS	(3.8 M)	42.3 M	48.9 M	51.4 M	37 M	62.6 M	62.9 M	61.4 M	66.1 M	82.8 M	58.7 M	72.3 M	44.1 M	66.2 M	53.7 M
SANG	(291.9 K)	408 K	(4.1 M)	690.8 K	203.7 K	88.4 K	615.3 K	1.9 M	1.2 M	2.9 M	618.6 K	(110.8 M)	(29 M)	(8.7 M)	(8.2 M)
NTCT	10.3 M	32.4 M	40.6 M	49.1 M	61.2 M	(28.4 M)	33.3 M	79.8 M	(73.3 M)	(2.8 M)	19.4 M	35.9 M	59.6 M	(147.7 M)	(140.3 M)
CCSI	152.1 M	152.1 M	152.1 M	152.1 M	152.1 M	152.1 M	152.1 M	152.1 M	152.1 M	213 M	152.9 M	109 M	72.7 M	77.3 M	103.6 M

Lesaka Technologies, Priority Technology, and CSG Systems International Net Income description

Net income is one of the most important fundamental items in finance. It plays a large role in entities financial statement analysis. It represents the amount of money remaining after all of organizations operating expenses, interest, taxes and preferred stock dividends have been deducted from a company total revenue.

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	LSAK	PRTH	CSGS	SANG	NTCT	CCSI	ESMT
	3.24 5.37 Lesaka	0.15 6.63 Priority	9.47 55.93 CSG	4.17 6.49 Sangoma	2.25 22.16 NetScout	1.99 26.08 Consensus	0.11 18.45 EngageSmart
Market Volatility (90 Days Market Risk)	Slightly risky	Relatively risky	Very steady	Somewhat reliable	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady
Market Performance (90 Days Performance)	OK	OK	OK	OK	Good	Good	Very Weak
Odds of Financial Distress (Probability Of Bankruptcy)	Below Average	About Average	Very Low	About Average	Low	Very Low	Dangerous
Current Valuation (Equity Enterprise Value)	Under Valued	Over Valued	Under Valued	Under Valued	Under Valued	Under Valued	Over Valued
Buy or Sell Advice (Average Analysts Consensus)	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Hold	Buy	Not Available
Trade Advice (90 Days Macroaxis Advice)	Strong Sell	Strong Sell	Strong Hold	Hold	Strong Hold	Buy	Not Rated
Current Ratio	1.49 X	1.04 X	1.04 X	0.78 X	1.46 X	1.35 X	7.45 X
Net Asset	558.45 M	1.62 B	1.44 B	400.64 M	2.6 B	647.25 M	886.5 M
Profit Margin	(0.03) %	0.01 %	0.06 %	(0.04) %	(0.76) %	0.26 %	0.07 %
EBITDA	32.09 M	151.66 M	123.88 M	43.89 M	134.23 M	164.65 M	42.84 M
Operating Margin	0.01 %	0.15 %	0.11 %	0 %	0.09 %	0.46 %	0.04 %
Current Valuation	550.5 M	1.4 B	1.92 B	279.54 M	1.35 B	1.06 B	3.54 B
Price To Book	1.73 X	N/A	5.28 X	0.79 X	1.11 X	0.88 X	4.61 X
Retained Earnings	310.22 M	(134.95 M)	968.13 M	(141.94 M)	322.48 M	(173.11 M)	(9.51 M)
Current Asset	N/A	N/A	539.01 M	N/A	84.98 M	N/A	N/A
Five Year Return	N/A	N/A	1.94 %	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Beta	0.94	0.96	0.83	1.63	0.58	1.85	0.32
Number Of Employees	2.53 K	974	6 K	1.34 K	2.27 K	559	971
Shares Outstanding	80.52 M	76.83 M	29.5 M	33.72 M	71.72 M	19.3 M	168.34 M
Cash Flow From Operations	28.79 M	81.26 M	131.9 M	44.25 M	58.81 M	114.11 M	60.63 M
Annual Yield	N/A	N/A	0.02 %	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Total Debt	166.7 M	638.68 M	592.8 M	89.11 M	150.08 M	749.23 M	31.79 M
Return On Equity	-0.0982	0.23	0.2	-0.0329	-0.34	0.13	0.0304
Z Score	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	74.17
Return On Asset	0.007	0.044	0.0629	-0.0016	0.01	0.15	0.0161
Number Of Shares Shorted	62.43 K	110.16 K	2.1 M	11.2 K	1.5 M	559.88 K	1.75 M
Book Value Per Share	2.83 X	(2.27) X	9.64 X	7.79 X	20.35 X	(6.45) X	5.02 X
Current Liabilities	N/A	N/A	232.61 M	N/A	24.59 M	N/A	N/A
Total Asset	558.45 M	1.62 B	1.44 B	400.64 M	2.6 B	647.25 M	886.5 M
Debt To Equity	0.92 %	4.35 %	1.24 %	0.42 %	0.13 %	0.04 %	0.04 %
Short Ratio	2.99 X	1.69 X	9.75 X	0.82 X	2.74 X	4.76 X	2.00 X
Target Price	8.0	8.5	61.63	6.88	27.18	27.8	23.0
Last Dividend Paid	N/A	N/A	1.16	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Shares Owned By Institutions	40.31 %	12.20 %	95.97 %	33.66 %	92.46 %	98.83 %	93.60 %
Market Capitalization	442.86 M	510.16 M	1.51 B	206.66 M	1.63 B	452.71 M	3.88 B
Price To Earnings To Growth	(2.19) X	N/A	1.09 X	N/A	1.57 X	N/A	0.93 X
Price To Earning	N/A	14.24 X	33.55 X	N/A	55.49 X	9.29 X	N/A
Price To Sales	0.78 X	0.63 X	1.29 X	0.84 X	2.07 X	1.28 X	10.65 X
Net Income	(17.44 M)	(1.31 M)	66.25 M	(8.66 M)	(147.73 M)	77.24 M	24.88 M
Earnings Per Share	(0.27) X	(0.76) X	2.22 X	(0.26) X	(9.06) X	4.70 X	0.15 X
Shares Owned By Insiders	20.59 %	75.85 %	4.03 %	27.72 %	3.71 %	7.05 %	4.63 %
Revenue	564.22 M	755.61 M	1.17 B	247.28 M	829.46 M	362.56 M	364.47 M
Working Capital	69.65 M	29.23 M	301.39 M	(3 M)	277.41 M	53.86 M	289.32 M
Cash And Equivalents	43.94 M	22.16 M	135.04 M	12.7 M	367.13 M	76.29 M	274.21 M
Cash Per Share	0.76 X	0.29 X	4.38 X	0.57 X	5.08 X	3.85 X	1.67 X
Gross Profit	110.43 M	155.02 M	524.58 M	172.79 M	641.39 M	300.47 M	232.07 M
Day Typical Price	5.27	7.01	54.74	6.32	22.23	26.09	18.39
Accumulation Distribution	2454.25	23057.32	65427.37	1063.6	9604.01	6315.94	0.0135
Market Facilitation Index	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.25
Daily Balance Of Power	(0.60)	(0.01)	0.804	0.5	(0.98)	(0.56)	(0.08)
Period Momentum Indicator	(0.18)	(0.01)	4.84	0.26	(0.51)	(0.53)	(0.02)
Rate Of Daily Change	0.97	1.0	1.09	1.04	0.98	0.98	1.0
Day Median Price	5.22	7.21	54.15	6.24	22.27	26.1	18.36
Price Action Indicator	0.06	(0.58)	4.2	0.38	(0.37)	(0.29)	0.075
Relative Strength Index	45.25	61.02	75.81	29.98	70.38	33.31	29.25
Coefficient Of Variation	816.05	812.44	645.87	743.32	648.34	563.8	1750.06
Mean Deviation	2.02	3.72	1.16	2.2	1.56	2.18	1.57
Jensen Alpha	0.4112	0.0019	0.0419	0.3896	(0.01)	0.1643	0.0222
Total Risk Alpha	(0.27)	(0.46)	(0.11)	(0.25)	(0.13)	(0.11)	(0.33)
Sortino Ratio	0.0626	0.0996	0.0744	0.0896	0.0826	0.1611	(0.03)
Downside Variance	8.23	20.08	1.37	6.97	3.31	4.85	4.11
Standard Deviation	2.91	5.06	1.7	3.07	2.12	3.0	2.05
Kurtosis	2.63	2.1	9.45	4.26	1.46	4.34	0.6637
Potential Upside	6.07	10.92	2.65	5.32	3.6	6.28	3.9
Treynor Ratio	(0.89)	0.1672	0.1997	4.93	0.1634	0.2434	0.2101
Maximum Drawdown	18.75	20.29	11.06	21.17	7.96	12.46	9.34
Variance	8.46	25.64	2.9	9.44	4.5	8.98	4.22
Market Risk Adjusted Performance	(0.88)	0.1772	0.2097	4.94	0.1734	0.2534	0.2201
Risk Adjusted Performance	0.1038	0.1054	0.1273	0.1134	0.1278	0.1471	0.0512
Skewness	0.1045	0.5212	2.24	0.84	0.6821	1.35	0.3226
Semi Deviation	2.45	3.94	0.9142	2.28	1.5	1.93	1.9
Information Ratio	0.0618	0.0882	0.0511	0.077	0.0709	0.1184	(0.03)
Value At Risk	(4.21)	(5.65)	(1.83)	(3.85)	(2.84)	(3.47)	(2.93)
Expected Short fall	(2.23)	(4.18)	(1.37)	(2.83)	(1.77)	(2.62)	(1.59)
Downside Deviation	2.87	4.48	1.17	2.64	1.82	2.2	2.03
Semi Variance	5.98	15.55	0.8358	5.19	2.24	3.74	3.59

Market Neutrality

One of the main advantages of trading using market-neutral strategies is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses.

Please note, the success of pairs trading depends heavily on the modeling and forecasting of the spread time series. However, in general, pair trading minimizes risk from directional movements in the market unless the strategy's equities are perfectly correlated. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the first equity's short position will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Five steps to successful analysis of competition

Competitive analysis is the process of researching and evaluating the competitive landscape of a business entity. It provides an understanding of the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) in relation to its competition. The competition analysis typically involves several steps, including:

Identifying the key players in the market: This involves identifying the major competitors across the sector or industry, both direct and indirect, as well as new entrants and disruptive technologies.
Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each competitor: This involves evaluating each competitor's strengths and weaknesses in areas such as product offerings, market share, brand recognition, financial performance, and distribution channels.
Understanding the competitive environment: This involves evaluating the regulatory environment, economic conditions, and other factors that may impact the competitive landscape.
Identifying opportunities and threats: This involves using the information gathered during the analysis to identify opportunities and threats and developing a strategy to address them.
Evaluating the competitive landscape: This involves understanding the competitive dynamics of the market, such as pricing, marketing, and distribution strategies, as well as analyzing the competitive advantage of each competitor.

Competitive analysis is an essential tool for businesses to stay ahead of the competition and can be used to inform decision-making and strategy development. By understanding the competitive landscape and staying informed about the activities of competitors, a company can make more informed decisions and improve its overall performance.

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Price To Sales Ratio	Dividend Yield
Ptb Ratio	Days Sales Outstanding
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