LUMN vs. WTTR, GCT, COUR, ADEA, KFRC, MAX, ZKH, CRAI, MTTR, and AMPL
Should you be buying Lumen Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lumen Technologies include Select Water Solutions (WTTR), GigaCloud Technology (GCT), Coursera (COUR), Adeia (ADEA), Kforce (KFRC), MediaAlpha (MAX), ZKH Group (ZKH), CRA International (CRAI), Matterport (MTTR), and Amplitude (AMPL). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Select Water Solutions (NYSE:WTTR) and Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
Select Water Solutions has a net margin of 4.28% compared to Select Water Solutions' net margin of -76.21%. Lumen Technologies' return on equity of 7.46% beat Select Water Solutions' return on equity.
Select Water Solutions has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lumen Technologies has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Select Water Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $11.83, suggesting a potential upside of 11.22%. Lumen Technologies has a consensus price target of $1.76, suggesting a potential upside of 39.33%. Given Select Water Solutions' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lumen Technologies is more favorable than Select Water Solutions.
Lumen Technologies received 256 more outperform votes than Select Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.81% of users gave Select Water Solutions an outperform vote while only 59.69% of users gave Lumen Technologies an outperform vote.
81.7% of Select Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of Select Water Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Select Water Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lumen Technologies. Lumen Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Select Water Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Select Water Solutions and Select Water Solutions both had 2 articles in the media. Lumen Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Select Water Solutions' score of 0.11 indicating that Select Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Select Water Solutions beats Lumen Technologies on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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