RDUS vs. LQDT, FC, CMPO, ECX, ADSE, ANAB, ICG, DSP, PAHC, and MKTW
Should you be buying Radius Recycling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Radius Recycling include Liquidity Services (LQDT), Franklin Covey (FC), CompoSecure (CMPO), ECARX (ECX), ADS-TEC Energy (ADSE), AnaptysBio (ANAB), Intchains Group (ICG), Viant Technology (DSP), Phibro Animal Health (PAHC), and MarketWise (MKTW).
Radius Recycling (NASDAQ:RDUS) and Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
Liquidity Services has higher revenue and earnings than Radius Recycling. Radius Recycling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liquidity Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Radius Recycling had 3 more articles in the media than Liquidity Services. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Radius Recycling and 0 mentions for Liquidity Services. Liquidity Services' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Radius Recycling's score of -0.10 indicating that Liquidity Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Radius Recycling has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liquidity Services has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liquidity Services has a net margin of 6.03% compared to Radius Recycling's net margin of -2.28%. Liquidity Services' return on equity of 17.62% beat Radius Recycling's return on equity.
Liquidity Services received 94 more outperform votes than Radius Recycling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.76% of users gave Liquidity Services an outperform vote while only 54.69% of users gave Radius Recycling an outperform vote.
78.1% of Radius Recycling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.7% of Radius Recycling shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Liquidity Services has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 54.99%. Given Liquidity Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Liquidity Services is more favorable than Radius Recycling.
Summary
Liquidity Services beats Radius Recycling on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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