MCHX vs. HGBL, RSSS, XELA, DHX, EGIO, STCN, UXIN, ZFOX, OPRX, and RMNI
Should you be buying Marchex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marchex include Heritage Global (HGBL), Research Solutions (RSSS), Exela Technologies (XELA), DHI Group (DHX), Edgio (EGIO), Steel Connect (STCN), Uxin (UXIN), ZeroFox (ZFOX), OptimizeRx (OPRX), and Rimini Street (RMNI). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Heritage Global (NASDAQ:HGBL) and Marchex (NASDAQ:MCHX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
33.5% of Heritage Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.5% of Marchex shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.8% of Heritage Global shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Marchex shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Heritage Global currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 165.49%. Given Marchex's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Heritage Global is more favorable than Marchex.
Marchex received 303 more outperform votes than Heritage Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.93% of users gave Marchex an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Heritage Global an outperform vote.
Heritage Global has a net margin of 20.40% compared to Heritage Global's net margin of -13.97%. Marchex's return on equity of 20.56% beat Heritage Global's return on equity.
Heritage Global has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marchex has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Heritage Global had 1 more articles in the media than Marchex. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Heritage Global and 5 mentions for Marchex. Heritage Global's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Marchex's score of 0.62 indicating that Marchex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Heritage Global has higher revenue and earnings than Marchex. Marchex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heritage Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Heritage Global beats Marchex on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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