ECX vs. SMRT, MDRX, TDCX, NNOX, LQDT, CCRN, DSP, ACCD, LNZA, and MKTW
Should you be buying ECARX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECARX include SmartRent (SMRT), Veradigm (MDRX), TDCX (TDCX), Nano-X Imaging (NNOX), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Viant Technology (DSP), Accolade (ACCD), LanzaTech Global (LNZA), and MarketWise (MKTW). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
ECARX (NASDAQ:ECX) and SmartRent (NYSE:SMRT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
59.4% of SmartRent shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of ECARX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of SmartRent shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ECARX has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its share price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartRent has a beta of 2, suggesting that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SmartRent had 3 more articles in the media than ECARX. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SmartRent and 2 mentions for ECARX. ECARX's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat SmartRent's score of -0.75 indicating that ECARX is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SmartRent received 12 more outperform votes than ECARX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave ECARX an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave SmartRent an outperform vote.
ECARX presently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 498.80%. SmartRent has a consensus price target of $4.18, suggesting a potential upside of 52.93%. Given ECARX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe ECARX is more favorable than SmartRent.
SmartRent has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ECARX. SmartRent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ECARX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SmartRent has a net margin of -13.08% compared to ECARX's net margin of -20.03%. ECARX's return on equity of 0.00% beat SmartRent's return on equity.
Summary
SmartRent beats ECARX on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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