ECVT vs. SEAT, CIFR, CRAI, RPAY, WTTR, ADEA, CRCT, AMPL, KFRC, and NWTN
Should you be buying Ecovyst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ecovyst include Vivid Seats (SEAT), Cipher Mining (CIFR), CRA International (CRAI), Repay (RPAY), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), Adeia (ADEA), Cricut (CRCT), Amplitude (AMPL), Kforce (KFRC), and NWTN (NWTN). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Ecovyst (NYSE:ECVT) and Vivid Seats (NASDAQ:SEAT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Ecovyst has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vivid Seats has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
86.7% of Ecovyst shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.9% of Vivid Seats shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Ecovyst shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 57.2% of Vivid Seats shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vivid Seats has higher revenue and earnings than Ecovyst.
In the previous week, Vivid Seats had 22 more articles in the media than Ecovyst. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Vivid Seats and 4 mentions for Ecovyst. Ecovyst's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Vivid Seats' score of 0.19 indicating that Ecovyst is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ecovyst currently has a consensus price target of $14.67, suggesting a potential upside of 49.20%. Vivid Seats has a consensus price target of $10.15, suggesting a potential upside of 96.32%. Given Vivid Seats' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vivid Seats is more favorable than Ecovyst.
Vivid Seats received 10 more outperform votes than Ecovyst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 40.74% of users gave Vivid Seats an outperform vote while only 35.29% of users gave Ecovyst an outperform vote.
Ecovyst has a net margin of 10.70% compared to Vivid Seats' net margin of 9.21%. Ecovyst's return on equity of 10.83% beat Vivid Seats' return on equity.
Summary
Vivid Seats beats Ecovyst on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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