CNDT vs. RILY, RDWR, IIIV, TTGT, QNST, ACVA, DLO, FA, PAY, and PAYO
Should you be buying Conduent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conduent include B. Riley Financial (RILY), Radware (RDWR), i3 Verticals (IIIV), TechTarget (TTGT), QuinStreet (QNST), ACV Auctions (ACVA), DLocal (DLO), First Advantage (FA), Paymentus (PAY), and Payoneer Global (PAYO).
B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) and Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
Conduent has a net margin of -5.13% compared to Conduent's net margin of -9.28%. B. Riley Financial's return on equity of -2.50% beat Conduent's return on equity.
Conduent has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 159.37%. Given B. Riley Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Conduent is more favorable than B. Riley Financial.
B. Riley Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conduent. B. Riley Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B. Riley Financial received 168 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.03% of users gave B. Riley Financial an outperform vote while only 30.00% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
50.2% of B. Riley Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.3% of Conduent shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.9% of B. Riley Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Conduent shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
B. Riley Financial has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduent has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Conduent had 8 more articles in the media than B. Riley Financial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Conduent and 2 mentions for B. Riley Financial. Conduent's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat B. Riley Financial's score of 0.98 indicating that B. Riley Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Conduent beats B. Riley Financial on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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