Advantage Solutions (ADV) Competitors

Accolade (NASDAQ:ACCD) and Advantage Solutions (NASDAQ:ADV) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.

Do analysts prefer ACCD or ADV?

Accolade presently has a consensus target price of $15.59, indicating a potential upside of 44.92%. Advantage Solutions has a consensus target price of $4.10, indicating a potential upside of 46.95%. Given Accolade's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Advantage Solutions is more favorable than Accolade.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Accolade	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Advantage Solutions	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the media favor ACCD or ADV?

In the previous week, Accolade had 7 more articles in the media than Advantage Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Accolade and 0 mentions for Advantage Solutions. Accolade's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Advantage Solutions' score of 0.09 indicating that Advantage Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Accolade	Neutral
Advantage Solutions	Positive

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in ACCD or ADV?

73.9% of Accolade shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.8% of Advantage Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Accolade shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Advantage Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, ACCD or ADV?

Accolade has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Advantage Solutions. Accolade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advantage Solutions, 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
Accolade	$363.14M	2.24	-$459.65M	-$2.16	-4.98
Advantage Solutions	$4.05B	0.22	-$1.38B	-$4.58	-0.61

Which has more risk & volatility, ACCD or ADV?

Accolade has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advantage Solutions has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ACCD or ADV?

Accolade received 65 more outperform votes than Advantage Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.30% of users gave Accolade an outperform vote while only 24.24% of users gave Advantage Solutions an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Accolade	Outperform Votes 73 55.30%	Underperform Votes 59 44.70%
Advantage Solutions	Outperform Votes 8 24.24%	Underperform Votes 25 75.76%

Is ACCD or ADV more profitable?

Advantage Solutions has a net margin of -34.72% compared to Advantage Solutions' net margin of -41.86%. Accolade's return on equity of 8.27% beat Advantage Solutions' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Accolade	-41.86%	-32.34%	-17.13%
Advantage Solutions	-34.72%	8.27%	2.81%

Summary

Accolade beats Advantage Solutions on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.