LQDT vs. ACCD, IMXI, VVI, SEZL, RGP, CNDT, EEX, SHAP, PRTH, and PAYS
Should you be buying Liquidity Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liquidity Services include Accolade (ACCD), International Money Express (IMXI), Viad (VVI), Sezzle (SEZL), Resources Connection (RGP), Conduent (CNDT), Emerald (EEX), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Priority Technology (PRTH), and Paysign (PAYS). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Accolade (NASDAQ:ACCD) and Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
Liquidity Services received 349 more outperform votes than Accolade when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.95% of users gave Liquidity Services an outperform vote while only 58.13% of users gave Accolade an outperform vote.
Accolade currently has a consensus target price of $14.14, indicating a potential upside of 92.16%. Liquidity Services has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 40.41%. Given Liquidity Services' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Accolade is more favorable than Liquidity Services.
Liquidity Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Accolade. Accolade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liquidity Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.0% of Accolade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Accolade shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Accolade has a beta of 2.15, indicating that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liquidity Services has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liquidity Services has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Liquidity Services' net margin of -24.09%. Accolade's return on equity of 18.51% beat Liquidity Services' return on equity.
In the previous week, Liquidity Services had 9 more articles in the media than Accolade. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Liquidity Services and 14 mentions for Accolade. Accolade's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Liquidity Services' score of 0.21 indicating that Liquidity Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Liquidity Services beats Accolade on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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