VVX vs. MLNK, CRCT, BBU, STER, SCS, NVEE, OPEN, HURN, MTTR, and IAS
Should you be buying V2X stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of V2X include MeridianLink (MLNK), Cricut (CRCT), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU), Sterling Check (STER), Steelcase (SCS), NV5 Global (NVEE), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), Matterport (MTTR), and Integral Ad Science (IAS). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
MeridianLink (NYSE:MLNK) and V2X (NYSE:VVX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
V2X has higher revenue and earnings than MeridianLink. V2X is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MeridianLink, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MeridianLink presently has a consensus price target of $19.60, suggesting a potential upside of 2.56%. V2X has a consensus price target of $59.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.40%. Given MeridianLink's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe V2X is more favorable than MeridianLink.
In the previous week, V2X had 1 more articles in the media than MeridianLink. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for V2X and 1 mentions for MeridianLink. MeridianLink's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat V2X's score of -0.50 indicating that V2X is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MeridianLink has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, V2X has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
82.7% of MeridianLink shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of V2X shares are held by institutional investors. 21.3% of MeridianLink shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of V2X shares are held 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.
V2X received 2 more outperform votes than MeridianLink when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 83.33% of users gave V2X an outperform vote while only 27.08% of users gave MeridianLink an outperform vote.
V2X has a net margin of -0.10% compared to V2X's net margin of -13.86%. MeridianLink's return on equity of 12.25% beat V2X's return on equity.
Summary
V2X beats MeridianLink on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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