IIIV vs. RILY, CASS, CNDT, CLCT, QNST, WNS, FA, PAY, PAYO, and FLYW
Should you be buying i3 Verticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of i3 Verticals include B. Riley Financial (RILY), Cass Information Systems (CASS), Conduent (CNDT), Collectors Universe (CLCT), QuinStreet (QNST), WNS (WNS), First Advantage (FA), Paymentus (PAY), Payoneer Global (PAYO), and Flywire (FLYW).
B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) and i3 Verticals (NASDAQ:IIIV) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
50.2% of B. Riley Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.2% of i3 Verticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.9% of B. Riley Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.0% of i3 Verticals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
i3 Verticals has a consensus target price of $27.57, suggesting a potential upside of 44.66%. Given B. Riley Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe i3 Verticals is more favorable than B. Riley Financial.
i3 Verticals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B. Riley Financial. B. Riley Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than i3 Verticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B. Riley Financial has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, i3 Verticals has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
B. Riley Financial received 34 more outperform votes than i3 Verticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.03% of users gave B. Riley Financial an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave i3 Verticals an outperform vote.
i3 Verticals has a net margin of 0.63% compared to i3 Verticals' net margin of -9.28%. B. Riley Financial's return on equity of 8.91% beat i3 Verticals' return on equity.
In the previous week, B. Riley Financial and B. Riley Financial both had 2 articles in the media. i3 Verticals' average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat B. Riley Financial's score of 0.94 indicating that B. Riley Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
i3 Verticals beats B. Riley Financial on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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