VVI vs. MGRC, KAR, HCSG, PFMT, CTAS, CPRT, IRM, UNF, DLO, and FA
Should you be buying Viad stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viad include McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Performant Financial (PFMT), Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), UniFirst (UNF), DLocal (DLO), and First Advantage (FA).
McGrath RentCorp (NASDAQ:MGRC) and Viad (NYSE:VVI) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
McGrath RentCorp has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viad has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
McGrath RentCorp currently has a consensus target price of $116.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.73%. Viad has a consensus target price of $44.33, indicating a potential upside of 30.20%. Given McGrath RentCorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Viad is more favorable than McGrath RentCorp.
McGrath RentCorp has a net margin of 14.70% compared to McGrath RentCorp's net margin of 0.61%. Viad's return on equity of 13.43% beat McGrath RentCorp's return on equity.
92.1% of McGrath RentCorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Viad shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of McGrath RentCorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Viad shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
McGrath RentCorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Viad. Viad is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McGrath RentCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, McGrath RentCorp had 3 more articles in the media than Viad. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for McGrath RentCorp and 3 mentions for Viad. Viad's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat McGrath RentCorp's score of -0.37 indicating that McGrath RentCorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Viad received 50 more outperform votes than McGrath RentCorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.52% of users gave Viad an outperform vote while only 59.34% of users gave McGrath RentCorp an outperform vote.
Summary
McGrath RentCorp beats Viad on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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