MG vs. ACTG, FC, OMEX, VRSK, EFX, FCN, EXPO, DNB, CBZ, and ICFI
Should you be buying Mistras Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mistras Group include Acacia Research (ACTG), Franklin Covey (FC), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), Equifax (EFX), FTI Consulting (FCN), Exponent (EXPO), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), CBIZ (CBZ), and ICF International (ICFI). These companies are all part of the "research & consulting services" industry.
Mistras Group (NYSE:MG) and Acacia Research (NASDAQ:ACTG) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Acacia Research has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.87%. Given Acacia Research's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Acacia Research is more favorable than Mistras Group.
In the previous week, Mistras Group had 1 more articles in the media than Acacia Research. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Mistras Group and 1 mentions for Acacia Research. Mistras Group's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Acacia Research's score of 0.10 indicating that Mistras Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Acacia Research has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mistras Group. Mistras Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acacia Research, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acacia Research has a net margin of 40.89% compared to Mistras Group's net margin of -1.59%. Acacia Research's return on equity of 13.02% beat Mistras Group's return on equity.
74.9% of Mistras Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of Acacia Research shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of Mistras Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Acacia Research shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mistras Group has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acacia Research has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mistras Group received 20 more outperform votes than Acacia Research when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.14% of users gave Mistras Group an outperform vote while only 61.04% of users gave Acacia Research an outperform vote.
Summary
Acacia Research beats Mistras Group on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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