ZH vs. PHR, EEX, MAX, PSFE, RSKD, ADV, QNST, RPAY, FVRR, and RDWR
Should you be buying Zhihu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zhihu include Phreesia (PHR), Emerald (EEX), MediaAlpha (MAX), Paysafe (PSFE), Riskified (RSKD), Advantage Solutions (ADV), QuinStreet (QNST), Repay (RPAY), Fiverr International (FVRR), and Radware (RDWR). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Zhihu (NYSE:ZH) and Phreesia (NYSE:PHR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, Phreesia had 3 more articles in the media than Zhihu. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Phreesia and 3 mentions for Zhihu. Phreesia's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Zhihu's score of 0.24 indicating that Phreesia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Zhihu has higher revenue and earnings than Phreesia. Phreesia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zhihu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zhihu has a net margin of -20.00% compared to Phreesia's net margin of -38.42%. Zhihu's return on equity of -16.32% beat Phreesia's return on equity.
28.9% of Zhihu shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of Phreesia shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.6% of Zhihu shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Phreesia shares are owned by 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.
Zhihu has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Phreesia has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Phreesia received 112 more outperform votes than Zhihu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.74% of users gave Phreesia an outperform vote while only 45.83% of users gave Zhihu an outperform vote.
Phreesia has a consensus price target of $31.62, suggesting a potential upside of 39.83%. Given Phreesia's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Phreesia is more favorable than Zhihu.
Summary
Phreesia beats Zhihu on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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