DLX vs. TWKS, RILY, REAX, NN, GB, NYAX, TDCX, PSFE, ARIS, and WTTR
Should you be buying Deluxe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Deluxe include Thoughtworks (TWKS), B. Riley Financial (RILY), Real Brokerage (REAX), NextNav (NN), Global Blue Group (GB), Nayax (NYAX), TDCX (TDCX), Paysafe (PSFE), Aris Water Solutions (ARIS), and Select Water Solutions (WTTR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Thoughtworks (NASDAQ:TWKS) and Deluxe (NYSE:DLX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Thoughtworks has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Deluxe has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Thoughtworks had 14 more articles in the media than Deluxe. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Thoughtworks and 5 mentions for Deluxe. Thoughtworks' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Deluxe's score of 0.25 indicating that Deluxe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Deluxe has higher revenue and earnings than Thoughtworks. Thoughtworks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Deluxe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Deluxe has a net margin of 1.57% compared to Deluxe's net margin of -8.56%. Thoughtworks' return on equity of 21.33% beat Deluxe's return on equity.
32.8% of Thoughtworks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Deluxe shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Thoughtworks shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Deluxe shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Thoughtworks currently has a consensus price target of $4.94, suggesting a potential upside of 60.44%. Deluxe has a consensus price target of $29.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24.37%. Given Deluxe's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Thoughtworks is more favorable than Deluxe.
Deluxe received 242 more outperform votes than Thoughtworks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.50% of users gave Deluxe an outperform vote while only 30.77% of users gave Thoughtworks an outperform vote.
Summary
Deluxe beats Thoughtworks on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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