ACTG vs. BBCP, RERE, NCMI, GAMB, TRMR, NEXN, RGP, TINV, GDOT, and ADTN
Should you be buying Acacia Research stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acacia Research include Concrete Pumping (BBCP), ATRenew (RERE), National CineMedia (NCMI), Gambling.com Group (GAMB), Tremor International (TRMR), Nexxen International (NEXN), Resources Connection (RGP), Tiga Acquisition (TINV), Green Dot (GDOT), and ADTRAN (ADTN). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Acacia Research (NASDAQ:ACTG) and Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Concrete Pumping has higher revenue and earnings than Acacia Research. Acacia Research is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concrete Pumping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acacia Research has a net margin of 48.92% compared to Concrete Pumping's net margin of 4.81%. Acacia Research's return on equity of 12.85% beat Concrete Pumping's return on equity.
Acacia Research received 161 more outperform votes than Concrete Pumping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.17% of users gave Acacia Research an outperform vote while only 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Acacia Research had 4 more articles in the media than Concrete Pumping. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Acacia Research and 11 mentions for Concrete Pumping. Concrete Pumping's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Acacia Research's score of 0.19 indicating that Concrete Pumping is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Concrete Pumping has a consensus target price of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.14%. Given Acacia Research's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Acacia Research is more favorable than Concrete Pumping.
44.9% of Acacia Research shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Acacia Research shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned 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.
Acacia Research has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Acacia Research beats Concrete Pumping on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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