DLHC vs. SRT, CCRN, TBI, TTEC, HQI, RCMT, BGSF, YYGH, HSON, and STAF
Should you be buying DLH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DLH include Startek (SRT), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), TrueBlue (TBI), TTEC (TTEC), HireQuest (HQI), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), YY Group (YYGH), Hudson Global (HSON), and Staffing 360 Solutions (STAF). These companies are all part of the "help supply services" industry.
Startek (NYSE:SRT) and DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
Startek has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DLH has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DLH has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Startek. Startek is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DLH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, DLH had 5 more articles in the media than Startek. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for DLH and 0 mentions for Startek. Startek's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat DLH's score of 0.00 indicating that DLH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Startek currently has a consensus target price of $4.75, suggesting a potential upside of 7.47%. Given DLH's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Startek is more favorable than DLH.
Startek received 85 more outperform votes than DLH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.31% of users gave Startek an outperform vote while only 65.24% of users gave DLH an outperform vote.
13.0% of Startek shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of DLH shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Startek shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of DLH shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
DLH has a net margin of 0.76% compared to DLH's net margin of -5.81%. DLH's return on equity of 12.22% beat Startek's return on equity.
Summary
Startek and DLH tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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