ADV vs. LZ, FIVN, RAMP, ALIT, OLO, VVX, ACVA, FLYW, ASTH, and TASK
Should you be buying Advantage Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advantage Solutions include LegalZoom.com (LZ), Five9 (FIVN), LiveRamp (RAMP), Alight (ALIT), OLO (OLO), V2X (VVX), ACV Auctions (ACVA), Flywire (FLYW), Astrana Health (ASTH), and TaskUs (TASK). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Advantage Solutions vs. Its Competitors
LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ) and Advantage Solutions (NASDAQ:ADV) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
LegalZoom.com presently has a consensus target price of $10.83, suggesting a potential upside of 7.47%. Advantage Solutions has a consensus target price of $2.25, suggesting a potential upside of 48.03%. Given Advantage Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Advantage Solutions is more favorable than LegalZoom.com.
In the previous week, LegalZoom.com had 4 more articles in the media than Advantage Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for LegalZoom.com and 2 mentions for Advantage Solutions. Advantage Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat LegalZoom.com's score of 0.71 indicating that Advantage Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
82.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.8% of Advantage Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.9% of Advantage Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advantage Solutions has a beta of 2.17, indicating that its stock price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500.
LegalZoom.com has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Advantage Solutions. Advantage Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LegalZoom.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LegalZoom.com has a net margin of 4.07% compared to Advantage Solutions' net margin of -8.72%. LegalZoom.com's return on equity of 20.36% beat Advantage Solutions' return on equity.
Summary
LegalZoom.com beats Advantage Solutions on 11 of the 16 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:ADV) was last updated on 10/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
