Reviewing Sify Technologies Limited (SIFY)’s and Its Competitors results

Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ:SIFY) is a company in the Internet Service Providers industry and that’s how we compare it to its peers. The comparing will be based on the dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and valuation.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

1.3% of Sify Technologies Limited’s shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.20% of all Internet Service Providers’s companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.1% of Sify Technologies Limited shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.83% of all Internet Service Providers companies shares are owned by company insiders.

Profitability

Table 1 has Sify Technologies Limited and its peers’ net margins, return on assets and return on equity.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sify Technologies Limited	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Industry Average	17.17%	0.00%	0.00%

Earnings & Valuation

In next table we are comparing Sify Technologies Limited and its peers’ valuation, top-line revenue and net income.

	Net Income	Gross Revenue	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sify Technologies Limited	N/A	N/A	15.29
Industry Average	17.65M	102.76M	15.29

With currently price-to-earnings ratio Sify Technologies Limited is more than its competitors.

Analyst Recommendations

Table 3 shows breakdown of recent ratings for Sify Technologies Limited and its peers.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sify Technologies Limited	0	0	1	3.00
Industry Average	0.00	7.00	1.00	2.67

With consensus target price of $4, Sify Technologies Limited has a potential upside of 196.30%. As a group, Internet Service Providers companies have a potential upside of 43.76%. Based on the results shown earlier, Sify Technologies Limited’s rivals are looking more favorable than the stock itself, analysts’ view.

Performance

In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of Sify Technologies Limited and its peers.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Sify Technologies Limited	0%	-5.17%	23.26%	-9.66%	-11.17%	6.71%
Industry Average	0.00%	7.72%	13.91%	4.10%	200.41%	26.22%

For the past year Sify Technologies Limited has weaker performance than Sify Technologies Limited’s competitors.

Risk & Volatility

Sify Technologies Limited is 20.00% more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500 because the stock has a beta of 1.2. Competitively, Sify Technologies Limited’s peers’ beta is 1.41 which is 40.75% more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500.

Dividends

The annual dividend that Sify Technologies Limited pay is $0.02 per share with a dividend yield of 1.33%. On the other side Sify Technologies Limited’s competitors have dividend yield of 1.26%.

Summary

Sify Technologies Limited’s competitors beat on 4 of the 5 factors Sify Technologies Limited.

Sify Technologies Limited provides integrated information and communications technology solutions and services in India and internationally. The companyÂ’s Telecom Services segment offers Internet protocol based virtual private network services, including intranets, extranets, and remote access applications; and last mile connectivity services. The companyÂ’s Data Centre Services segment provides co-location, regular backup, server load balancing, and remote backup solutions; messaging, shared hosting, network, and security services; storage and virtualization services; and managed voice services to resident enterprises. Its Cloud and Managed services segment offers on-demand hosting services; and remote and onsite infrastructure management services that manages and supports customer operating systems, applications, and database layers, as well as utility-based on-demand storage service that manages the lifecycle of enterprise information. The companyÂ’s Technology Integration Services segment provides data center build, network integration, information security, end user computing, and collaborative tools and solutions. Its Application Integration services segment offers a range of Web-applications; and operates online portals, including sify.com and samachar.com, which acts as principal entry points and gateway for accessing the Internet, as well as related content sites. In addition, it provides Website design, development, content management, online assessment tools, and search engine optimization services; messaging and collaboration solutions; on-line testing engine and network management services; and on-line exam engine solutions. The company was formerly known as Sify Limited and changed its name to Sify Technologies Limited in October 2007. Sify Technologies Limited was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.