DFIN vs. MRCY, SPNS, SGML, TTMI, SOUN, IONQ, PLAB, PD, SPT, and BB
Should you be buying Donnelley Financial Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donnelley Financial Solutions include Mercury Systems (MRCY), Sapiens International (SPNS), Sigma Lithium (SGML), TTM Technologies (TTMI), SoundHound AI (SOUN), IonQ (IONQ), Photronics (PLAB), PagerDuty (PD), Sprout Social (SPT), and BlackBerry (BB). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) and Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE:DFIN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Donnelley Financial Solutions has a net margin of 12.43% compared to Donnelley Financial Solutions' net margin of -16.08%. Mercury Systems' return on equity of 24.68% beat Donnelley Financial Solutions' return on equity.
In the previous week, Mercury Systems had 7 more articles in the media than Donnelley Financial Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Mercury Systems and 2 mentions for Donnelley Financial Solutions. Mercury Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Donnelley Financial Solutions' score of 1.17 indicating that Donnelley Financial Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mercury Systems currently has a consensus price target of $28.50, indicating a potential downside of 10.01%. Donnelley Financial Solutions has a consensus price target of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.67%. Given Mercury Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Donnelley Financial Solutions is more favorable than Mercury Systems.
Donnelley Financial Solutions has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mercury Systems. Mercury Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Donnelley Financial Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mercury Systems received 190 more outperform votes than Donnelley Financial Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.30% of users gave Mercury Systems an outperform vote while only 62.47% of users gave Donnelley Financial Solutions an outperform vote.
96.0% of Mercury Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of Donnelley Financial Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Mercury Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Donnelley Financial Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Mercury Systems has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Donnelley Financial Solutions has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Donnelley Financial Solutions beats Mercury Systems on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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