STCN vs. RSSS, HGBL, ALJJ, NCTY, XELA, V, MA, ADP, FI, and PAYX
Should you be buying Steel Connect stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steel Connect include Research Solutions (RSSS), Heritage Global (HGBL), ALJ Regional (ALJJ), The9 (NCTY), Exela Technologies (XELA), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Fiserv (FI), and Paychex (PAYX).
Steel Connect (NASDAQ:STCN) and Research Solutions (NASDAQ:RSSS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
Steel Connect has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Research Solutions has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Steel Connect has higher revenue and earnings than Research Solutions. Research Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steel Connect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Steel Connect had 7 more articles in the media than Research Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Steel Connect and 0 mentions for Research Solutions. Steel Connect's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Research Solutions' score of 0.00 indicating that Steel Connect is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Research Solutions has a consensus price target of $5.12, indicating a potential upside of 100.65%. Given Research Solutions' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Research Solutions is more favorable than Steel Connect.
Steel Connect received 151 more outperform votes than Research Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.57% of users gave Research Solutions an outperform vote while only 62.31% of users gave Steel Connect an outperform vote.
47.3% of Steel Connect shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.6% of Research Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Steel Connect shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.5% of Research Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Steel Connect has a net margin of 12.23% compared to Research Solutions' net margin of -1.39%. Steel Connect's return on equity of 39.04% beat Research Solutions' return on equity.
Summary
Steel Connect beats Research Solutions on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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