III vs. BWMN, HCKT, HQI, ALAR, SCWO, FNGR, MOND, BKSY, AISP, and MAPS
Should you be buying Information Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Information Services Group include Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), The Hackett Group (HCKT), HireQuest (HQI), Alarum Technologies (ALAR), 374Water (SCWO), FingerMotion (FNGR), Mondee (MOND), BlackSky Technology (BKSY), Airship AI (AISP), and WM Technology (MAPS). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Information Services Group (NASDAQ:III) and Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Information Services Group currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 79.64%. Bowman Consulting Group has a consensus target price of $47.00, indicating a potential upside of 50.16%. Given Information Services Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Information Services Group is more favorable than Bowman Consulting Group.
Information Services Group received 361 more outperform votes than Bowman Consulting Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.51% of users gave Information Services Group an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Bowman Consulting Group an outperform vote.
Information Services Group has a net margin of 2.12% compared to Bowman Consulting Group's net margin of -1.96%. Information Services Group's return on equity of 12.89% beat Bowman Consulting Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Information Services Group had 10 more articles in the media than Bowman Consulting Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Information Services Group and 5 mentions for Bowman Consulting Group. Bowman Consulting Group's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Information Services Group's score of 0.18 indicating that Bowman Consulting Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
73.1% of Information Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Information Services Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Information Services Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bowman Consulting Group. Bowman Consulting Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Information Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Information Services Group has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Information Services Group beats Bowman Consulting Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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