CNDT vs. RILY, RDWR, IIIV, TTGT, QNST, ACVA, DLO, FA, PAY, and PAYO
Should you be buying Conduent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conduent include B. Riley Financial (RILY), Radware (RDWR), i3 Verticals (IIIV), TechTarget (TTGT), QuinStreet (QNST), ACV Auctions (ACVA), DLocal (DLO), First Advantage (FA), Paymentus (PAY), and Payoneer Global (PAYO).
B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) and Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
B. Riley Financial received 168 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.03% of users gave B. Riley Financial an outperform vote while only 30.00% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Conduent had 9 more articles in the media than B. Riley Financial. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Conduent and 2 mentions for B. Riley Financial. Conduent's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat B. Riley Financial's score of 1.02 indicating that B. Riley Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Conduent has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 159.37%. Given B. Riley Financial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Conduent is more favorable than B. Riley Financial.
B. Riley Financial has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduent has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
B. Riley Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conduent. B. Riley Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
50.2% of B. Riley Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.3% of Conduent shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.9% of B. Riley Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Conduent shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Conduent has a net margin of -5.13% compared to Conduent's net margin of -9.28%. B. Riley Financial's return on equity of -2.50% beat Conduent's return on equity.
Summary
Conduent beats B. Riley Financial on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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