HQI vs. SRT, CCRN, TBI, TTEC, DLHC, RCMT, BGSF, HSON, YYGH, and STAF
Should you be buying HireQuest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HireQuest include Startek (SRT), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), TrueBlue (TBI), TTEC (TTEC), DLH (DLHC), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), YY Group (YYGH), and Staffing 360 Solutions (STAF). These companies are all part of the "help supply services" industry.
Startek (NYSE:SRT) and HireQuest (NASDAQ:HQI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and dividends.
13.0% of Startek shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.0% of HireQuest shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Startek shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 45.8% of HireQuest 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.
Startek received 364 more outperform votes than HireQuest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.37% of users gave Startek an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave HireQuest an outperform vote.
Startek presently has a consensus target price of $4.75, indicating a potential upside of 7.47%. HireQuest has a consensus target price of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 52.22%. Given Startek's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe HireQuest is more favorable than Startek.
HireQuest has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Startek. Startek is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HireQuest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Startek's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat HireQuest's score of 0.00 indicating that HireQuest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HireQuest has a net margin of 14.06% compared to HireQuest's net margin of -5.81%. HireQuest's return on equity of 12.22% beat Startek's return on equity.
Startek has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HireQuest has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HireQuest beats Startek on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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