LQDT vs. ACCD, VVI, SEZL, CNDT, RGP, SHAP, PRTH, PAYS, OPRX, and RMNI
Should you be buying Liquidity Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liquidity Services include Accolade (ACCD), Viad (VVI), Sezzle (SEZL), Conduent (CNDT), Resources Connection (RGP), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Priority Technology (PRTH), Paysign (PAYS), OptimizeRx (OPRX), and Rimini Street (RMNI). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Accolade (NASDAQ:ACCD) and Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Accolade presently has a consensus price target of $14.14, indicating a potential upside of 88.07%. Liquidity Services has a consensus price target of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 40.48%. Given Liquidity Services' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Accolade is more favorable than Liquidity Services.
Liquidity Services received 350 more outperform votes than Accolade when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.00% of users gave Liquidity Services an outperform vote while only 58.13% of users gave Accolade an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Liquidity Services had 3 more articles in the media than Accolade. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Liquidity Services and 4 mentions for Accolade. Accolade's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Liquidity Services' score of 0.45 indicating that Liquidity Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liquidity Services has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Liquidity Services' net margin of -24.09%. Accolade's return on equity of 18.51% beat Liquidity Services' return on equity.
Liquidity Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Accolade. Accolade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liquidity Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.0% of Accolade shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Liquidity Services shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Accolade shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Liquidity Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Accolade has a beta of 2.15, suggesting that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liquidity Services has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Liquidity Services beats Accolade on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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