CNDT vs. ACCD, LQDT, IMXI, VVI, RDWR, TTGT, IIIV, RGP, PSFE, and QNST
Should you be buying Conduent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conduent include Accolade (ACCD), Liquidity Services (LQDT), International Money Express (IMXI), Viad (VVI), Radware (RDWR), TechTarget (TTGT), i3 Verticals (IIIV), Resources Connection (RGP), Paysafe (PSFE), and QuinStreet (QNST).
Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) and Accolade (NASDAQ:ACCD) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
Conduent has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accolade has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Conduent has a net margin of -7.95% compared to Accolade's net margin of -24.09%. Conduent's return on equity of 0.00% beat Accolade's return on equity.
In the previous week, Accolade had 26 more articles in the media than Conduent. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Accolade and 4 mentions for Conduent. Conduent's average media sentiment score of -0.06 beat Accolade's score of -0.18 indicating that Conduent is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Conduent has higher revenue and earnings than Accolade. Accolade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Accolade received 79 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.23% of users gave Accolade an outperform vote while only 28.26% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Accolade shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of Accolade shares are held by company 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.
Conduent presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 194.12%. Accolade has a consensus price target of $14.80, indicating a potential upside of 87.58%. Given Conduent's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Conduent is more favorable than Accolade.
Summary
Conduent and Accolade tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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