SEZL vs. RGP, ACCD, LQDT, SHAP, PRTH, PAYS, IMXI, NOTE, VVI, and CNDT
Should you be buying Sezzle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sezzle include Resources Connection (RGP), Accolade (ACCD), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Priority Technology (PRTH), Paysign (PAYS), International Money Express (IMXI), FiscalNote (NOTE), Viad (VVI), and Conduent (CNDT). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Sezzle (NASDAQ:SEZL) and Resources Connection (NASDAQ:RGP) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
In the previous week, Sezzle had 13 more articles in the media than Resources Connection. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Sezzle and 2 mentions for Resources Connection. Resources Connection's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Sezzle's score of 0.70 indicating that Resources Connection is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Resources Connection has higher revenue and earnings than Sezzle. Resources Connection is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sezzle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Resources Connection has a consensus target price of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 16.28%. Given Resources Connection's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Resources Connection is more favorable than Sezzle.
Sezzle has a net margin of 7.79% compared to Resources Connection's net margin of 3.34%. Sezzle's return on equity of 62.26% beat Resources Connection's return on equity.
Resources Connection received 21 more outperform votes than Sezzle when rated by MarketBeat users.
2.0% of Sezzle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Resources Connection shares are held by institutional investors. 57.7% of Sezzle shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Resources Connection shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Sezzle beats Resources Connection on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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