MKTW vs. WGS, XPER, UWMC, API, MTC, INSE, ALAR, MAPS, FNGR, and AISP
Should you be buying MarketWise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MarketWise include GeneDx (WGS), Xperi (XPER), UWM (UWMC), Agora (API), MMTec (MTC), Inspired Entertainment (INSE), Alarum Technologies (ALAR), WM Technology (MAPS), FingerMotion (FNGR), and Airship AI (AISP).
MarketWise (NASDAQ:MKTW) and GeneDx (NASDAQ:WGS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
MarketWise has a net margin of 0.40% compared to GeneDx's net margin of -60.86%. MarketWise's return on equity of -0.67% beat GeneDx's return on equity.
MarketWise presently has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 128.76%. GeneDx has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential downside of 13.25%. Given MarketWise's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe MarketWise is more favorable than GeneDx.
23.0% of MarketWise shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of GeneDx shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.1% of MarketWise shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.1% of GeneDx shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MarketWise has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GeneDx has a beta of 2.17, meaning that its share price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MarketWise received 23 more outperform votes than GeneDx when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.00% of users gave MarketWise an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave GeneDx an outperform vote.
MarketWise has higher revenue and earnings than GeneDx. GeneDx is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MarketWise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MarketWise had 2 more articles in the media than GeneDx. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MarketWise and 1 mentions for GeneDx. GeneDx's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat MarketWise's score of 0.72 indicating that GeneDx is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
MarketWise beats GeneDx on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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