HQI vs. DLHC, RCMT, BGSF, HSON, TBI, TTEC, CCRN, BTBT, MAPS, and FNGR
Should you be buying HireQuest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HireQuest include DLH (DLHC), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), TrueBlue (TBI), TTEC (TTEC), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Bit Digital (BTBT), WM Technology (MAPS), and FingerMotion (FNGR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
HireQuest (NASDAQ:HQI) and DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
HireQuest has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DLH has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DLH received 280 more outperform votes than HireQuest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave DLH an outperform vote while only 56.25% of users gave HireQuest an outperform vote.
HireQuest presently has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 76.47%. Given HireQuest's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe HireQuest is more favorable than DLH.
HireQuest has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DLH. HireQuest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DLH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HireQuest has a net margin of 14.06% compared to DLH's net margin of 0.76%. HireQuest's return on equity of 9.28% beat DLH's return on equity.
In the previous week, DLH had 2 more articles in the media than HireQuest. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for DLH and 4 mentions for HireQuest. DLH's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat HireQuest's score of -0.35 indicating that DLH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
12.0% of HireQuest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of DLH shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.8% of HireQuest shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of DLH shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
HireQuest beats DLH on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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