RILY vs. CNDT, IIIV, CLCT, QNST, TRHC, AMK, PJT, DBRG, HPH, and GCMG
Should you be buying B. Riley Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B. Riley Financial include Conduent (CNDT), i3 Verticals (IIIV), Collectors Universe (CLCT), QuinStreet (QNST), Tabula Rasa HealthCare (TRHC), AssetMark Financial (AMK), PJT Partners (PJT), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), Highest Performances (HPH), and GCM Grosvenor (GCMG).
B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) and Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
50.2% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. 32.9% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
B. Riley Financial has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduent has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Conduent has a net margin of -5.13% compared to B. Riley Financial's net margin of -9.28%. Conduent's return on equity of -2.50% beat B. Riley Financial's return on equity.
In the previous week, Conduent had 6 more articles in the media than B. Riley Financial. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Conduent and 2 mentions for B. Riley Financial. B. Riley Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Conduent's score of 0.92 indicating that B. Riley Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Conduent has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 159.37%. Given Conduent's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Conduent is more favorable than B. Riley Financial.
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.
Summary
Conduent beats B. Riley Financial on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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