ADV vs. ACCD, PSFE, RPAY, CNDT, IMXI, VVI, LQDT, RGP, MAX, and SHAP
Should you be buying Advantage Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advantage Solutions include Accolade (ACCD), Paysafe (PSFE), Repay (RPAY), Conduent (CNDT), International Money Express (IMXI), Viad (VVI), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Resources Connection (RGP), MediaAlpha (MAX), and Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Advantage Solutions vs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Summary
Accolade beats Advantage Solutions on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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