PMTS vs. OB, LGCL, GSMG, MTC, PLBC, AIRJ, BTBT, QRHC, PFMT, and AISP
Should you be buying CPI Card Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CPI Card Group include Outbrain (OB), Lucas GC (LGCL), Glory Star New Media Group (GSMG), MMTec (MTC), Plumas Bancorp (PLBC), Montana Technologies (AIRJ), Bit Digital (BTBT), Quest Resource (QRHC), Performant Financial (PFMT), and Airship AI (AISP).
Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB) and CPI Card Group (NASDAQ:PMTS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability and community ranking.
Outbrain presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.05%. CPI Card Group has a consensus target price of $35.50, suggesting a potential upside of 103.09%. Given Outbrain's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CPI Card Group is more favorable than Outbrain.
60.4% of Outbrain shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of CPI Card Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.5% of Outbrain shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of CPI Card Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Outbrain received 228 more outperform votes than CPI Card Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 84.85% of users gave CPI Card Group an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Outbrain an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CPI Card Group had 2 more articles in the media than Outbrain. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for CPI Card Group and 2 mentions for Outbrain. CPI Card Group's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Outbrain's score of 0.25 indicating that Outbrain is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CPI Card Group has a net margin of 5.40% compared to CPI Card Group's net margin of 1.09%. CPI Card Group's return on equity of -1.75% beat Outbrain's return on equity.
CPI Card Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Outbrain. CPI Card Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Outbrain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Outbrain has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CPI Card Group has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CPI Card Group beats Outbrain on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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