QNST vs. RILY, CNDT, IIIV, TRHC, EVOP, ENV, PRFT, ZD, YELP, and CMPR
Should you be buying QuinStreet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuinStreet include B. Riley Financial (RILY), Conduent (CNDT), i3 Verticals (IIIV), Tabula Rasa HealthCare (TRHC), EVO Payments (EVOP), Envestnet (ENV), Perficient (PRFT), Ziff Davis (ZD), Yelp (YELP), and Cimpress (CMPR).
QuinStreet (NASDAQ:QNST) and B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
97.8% of QuinStreet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.2% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of QuinStreet shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.9% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
QuinStreet has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B. Riley Financial has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
QuinStreet received 114 more outperform votes than B. Riley Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.03% of users gave B. Riley Financial an outperform vote while only 57.12% of users gave QuinStreet an outperform vote.
In the previous week, QuinStreet had 2 more articles in the media than B. Riley Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for QuinStreet and 3 mentions for B. Riley Financial. QuinStreet's average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat B. Riley Financial's score of 1.85 indicating that QuinStreet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
B. Riley Financial has a net margin of -9.28% compared to QuinStreet's net margin of -15.59%. B. Riley Financial's return on equity of -25.84% beat QuinStreet's return on equity.
QuinStreet presently has a consensus price target of $20.38, indicating a potential upside of 11.22%. Given QuinStreet's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe QuinStreet is more favorable than B. Riley Financial.
QuinStreet has higher earnings, but lower revenue than B. Riley Financial. QuinStreet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than B. Riley Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
QuinStreet beats B. Riley Financial on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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