ACV Auctions (ACVA) Competitors

ICON Public (NASDAQ:ICLR) and ACV Auctions (NASDAQ:ACVA) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Do analysts prefer ICLR or ACVA?

ICON Public currently has a consensus price target of $213.08, indicating a potential upside of 66.48%. ACV Auctions has a consensus price target of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 35.87%. Given ICON Public's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ICON Public is more favorable than ACV Auctions.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ICON Public	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60
ACV Auctions	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.82

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of ICLR or ACVA?

95.6% of ICON Public shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.6% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.0% of ICON Public shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, ICLR or ACVA?

ICON Public has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACV Auctions has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ICLR or ACVA?

ICON Public received 555 more outperform votes than ACV Auctions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.38% of users gave ICON Public an outperform vote while only 57.81% of users gave ACV Auctions an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
ICON Public	Outperform Votes 629 65.38%	Underperform Votes 333 34.62%
ACV Auctions	Outperform Votes 74 57.81%	Underperform Votes 54 42.19%

Is ICLR or ACVA more profitable?

ICON Public has a net margin of 9.56% compared to ACV Auctions' net margin of -12.51%. ICON Public's return on equity of 11.81% beat ACV Auctions' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ICON Public	9.56%	11.81%	6.65%
ACV Auctions	-12.51%	-12.94%	-5.75%

Does the media favor ICLR or ACVA?

In the previous week, ACV Auctions had 9 more articles in the media than ICON Public. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for ACV Auctions and 5 mentions for ICON Public. ACV Auctions' average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat ICON Public's score of -0.12 indicating that ACV Auctions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
ICON Public	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
ACV Auctions	12 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, ICLR or ACVA?

ICON Public has higher revenue and earnings than ACV Auctions. ACV Auctions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICON Public, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ICON Public	$8.19B	1.26	$612.34M	$9.18	13.94
ACV Auctions	$674.16M	4.20	-$79.70M	-$0.45	-36.80

Summary

ICON Public beats ACV Auctions on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.