PRTH vs. PCOM, PAYS, RMNI, LQDT, INWK, GETY, PHR, MAX, EEX, and ADV
Should you be buying Priority Technology stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Priority Technology include Points.com (PCOM), Paysign (PAYS), Rimini Street (RMNI), Liquidity Services (LQDT), InnerWorkings (INWK), Getty Images (GETY), Phreesia (PHR), MediaAlpha (MAX), Emerald (EEX), and Advantage Solutions (ADV).
Points.com (NASDAQ:PCOM) and Priority Technology (NASDAQ:PRTH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Priority Technology has a consensus target price of $7.75, suggesting a potential upside of 69.58%. Given Points.com's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Priority Technology is more favorable than Points.com.
60.4% of Points.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.5% of Priority Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 76.3% of Priority Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Priority Technology has a net margin of 0.57% compared to Priority Technology's net margin of 0.48%. Priority Technology's return on equity of 4.15% beat Points.com's return on equity.
In the previous week, Priority Technology had 2 more articles in the media than Points.com. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Priority Technology and 2 mentions for Points.com. Points.com's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Priority Technology's score of 0.12 indicating that Priority Technology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Points.com has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Priority Technology. Priority Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Points.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Points.com received 436 more outperform votes than Priority Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.91% of users gave Points.com an outperform vote while only 47.92% of users gave Priority Technology an outperform vote.
Points.com has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Priority Technology has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Points.com beats Priority Technology on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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