ALYA vs. QTRH, ESP, SYZ, HAI, MDF, TC, PAY, MOGO, CVO, and VCM
Should you be buying Alithya Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alithya Group include Quarterhill (QTRH), Brompton Energy Split (ESP), Sylogist (SYZ), Haivision Systems (HAI), mdf commerce (MDF), Tucows (TC), Payfare (PAY), Mogo (MOGO), Coveo Solutions (CVO), and Vecima Networks (VCM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Alithya Group (TSE:ALYA) and Quarterhill (TSE:QTRH) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Alithya Group has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quarterhill has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
32.7% of Alithya Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.7% of Quarterhill shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.8% of Alithya Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Quarterhill shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Quarterhill received 326 more outperform votes than Alithya Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.08% of users gave Quarterhill an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Alithya Group an outperform vote.
Quarterhill has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alithya Group. Alithya Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quarterhill, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alithya Group presently has a consensus price target of C$3.03, suggesting a potential upside of 40.05%. Quarterhill has a consensus price target of C$2.20, suggesting a potential upside of 31.74%. Given Alithya Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alithya Group is more favorable than Quarterhill.
Alithya Group has a net margin of -7.69% compared to Quarterhill's net margin of -29.01%. Quarterhill's return on equity of -20.50% beat Alithya Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Quarterhill had 8 more articles in the media than Alithya Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Quarterhill and 1 mentions for Alithya Group. Quarterhill's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Alithya Group's score of 0.59 indicating that Quarterhill is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Quarterhill beats Alithya Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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