PFMT vs. QRHC, OB, SCWO, PMTS, AIRJ, GSMG, MAPS, LGCL, FNGR, and INSE
Should you be buying Performant Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performant Financial include Quest Resource (QRHC), Outbrain (OB), 374Water (SCWO), CPI Card Group (PMTS), Montana Technologies (AIRJ), Glory Star New Media Group (GSMG), WM Technology (MAPS), Lucas GC (LGCL), FingerMotion (FNGR), and Inspired Entertainment (INSE). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Quest Resource (NASDAQ:QRHC) and Performant Financial (NASDAQ:PFMT) 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 profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
In the previous week, Performant Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Quest Resource. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Performant Financial and 1 mentions for Quest Resource. Performant Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Quest Resource's score of 0.00 indicating that Quest Resource is being referred to more favorably in the media.
48.2% of Quest Resource shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Performant Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.6% of Quest Resource shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Performant Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Quest Resource has a net margin of -2.53% compared to Quest Resource's net margin of -6.61%. Performant Financial's return on equity of 4.99% beat Quest Resource's return on equity.
Performant Financial received 80 more outperform votes than Quest Resource when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.26% of users gave Performant Financial an outperform vote while only 55.41% of users gave Quest Resource an outperform vote.
Quest Resource has higher revenue and earnings than Performant Financial. Quest Resource is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Performant Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Quest Resource presently has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.07%. Given Performant Financial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Quest Resource is more favorable than Performant Financial.
Quest Resource has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Performant Financial has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Quest Resource beats Performant Financial on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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