ACVA vs. ICLR, HQY, QXO, MEDP, WPP, BILI, LYFT, ETSY, MARA, and QBTS
Should you be buying ACV Auctions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACV Auctions include ICON Public (ICLR), HealthEquity (HQY), QXO (QXO), Medpace (MEDP), WPP (WPP), Bilibili (BILI), Lyft (LYFT), Etsy (ETSY), MARA (MARA), and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
ACV Auctions vs. Its Competitors
ACV Auctions (NASDAQ:ACVA) and ICON Public (NASDAQ:ICLR) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, ACV Auctions had 3 more articles in the media than ICON Public. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ACV Auctions and 1 mentions for ICON Public. ACV Auctions' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat ICON Public's score of 0.94 indicating that ACV Auctions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
ACV Auctions presently has a consensus price target of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 37.20%. ICON Public has a consensus price target of $213.08, indicating a potential upside of 44.87%. Given ICON Public's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ICON Public is more favorable than ACV Auctions.
88.6% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of ICON Public shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.0% of ICON Public shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ACV Auctions has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICON Public has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
Summary
ICON Public beats ACV Auctions on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:ACVA) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
