FLNT vs. IZEA, STBX, LDWY, DRCT, AATC, OWLT, JOB, XBP, AERT, and KPLT
Should you be buying Fluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fluent include IZEA Worldwide (IZEA), Starbox Group (STBX), Lendway (LDWY), Direct Digital (DRCT), Autoscope Technologies (AATC), Owlet (OWLT), GEE Group (JOB), XBP Europe (XBP), Aeries Technology (AERT), and Katapult (KPLT).
IZEA Worldwide (NASDAQ:IZEA) and Fluent (NASDAQ:FLNT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Fluent has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 306.78%. Given IZEA Worldwide's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fluent is more favorable than IZEA Worldwide.
In the previous week, Fluent had 23 more articles in the media than IZEA Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Fluent and 5 mentions for IZEA Worldwide. Fluent's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat IZEA Worldwide's score of 0.08 indicating that IZEA Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the media.
15.6% of IZEA Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.3% of Fluent shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of IZEA Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.0% of Fluent shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
IZEA Worldwide has a net margin of -20.29% compared to IZEA Worldwide's net margin of -22.22%. Fluent's return on equity of -11.14% beat IZEA Worldwide's return on equity.
Fluent received 7 more outperform votes than IZEA Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.57% of users gave IZEA Worldwide an outperform vote while only 48.03% of users gave Fluent an outperform vote.
IZEA Worldwide has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fluent has a beta of 2.5, meaning that its stock price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IZEA Worldwide has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fluent. IZEA Worldwide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fluent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Fluent beats IZEA Worldwide on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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