VVI vs. CNDT, IMXI, ACCD, LQDT, PSFE, RGP, RPAY, SHAP, PRTH, and SEZL
Should you be buying Viad stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viad include Conduent (CNDT), International Money Express (IMXI), Accolade (ACCD), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Paysafe (PSFE), Resources Connection (RGP), Repay (RPAY), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Priority Technology (PRTH), and Sezzle (SEZL). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) and Viad (NYSE:VVI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Viad received 286 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.68% of users gave Viad an outperform vote while only 31.25% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
Viad has a net margin of 0.61% compared to Viad's net margin of -5.13%. Conduent's return on equity of 12.70% beat Viad's return on equity.
Conduent currently has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 127.27%. Viad has a consensus target price of $44.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.21%. Given Viad's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Conduent is more favorable than Viad.
In the previous week, Conduent had 2 more articles in the media than Viad. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Conduent and 2 mentions for Viad. Conduent's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Viad's score of 0.69 indicating that Viad is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Viad shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Viad shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Conduent has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viad has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Viad has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Conduent. Viad is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Viad beats Conduent on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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