BLDE vs. PRTH, PAYS, IBEX, INSE, LGCL, ARQ, MTC, API, LSAK, and PFMT
Should you be buying Blade Air Mobility stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blade Air Mobility include Priority Technology (PRTH), Paysign (PAYS), IBEX (IBEX), Inspired Entertainment (INSE), Lucas GC (LGCL), ARQ (ARQ), MMTec (MTC), Agora (API), Lesaka Technologies (LSAK), and Performant Financial (PFMT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Priority Technology (NASDAQ:PRTH) and Blade Air Mobility (NASDAQ:BLDE) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
Priority Technology has higher revenue and earnings than Blade Air Mobility. Priority Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blade Air Mobility, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Priority Technology currently has a consensus target price of $7.75, suggesting a potential upside of 118.93%. Blade Air Mobility has a consensus target price of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 136.77%. Given Priority Technology's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Blade Air Mobility is more favorable than Priority Technology.
11.5% of Priority Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.4% of Blade Air Mobility shares are owned by institutional investors. 76.3% of Priority Technology shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of Blade Air Mobility shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Priority Technology has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blade Air Mobility has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Blade Air Mobility had 10 more articles in the media than Priority Technology. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Blade Air Mobility and 4 mentions for Priority Technology. Priority Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Blade Air Mobility's score of -0.17 indicating that Blade Air Mobility is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Priority Technology received 9 more outperform votes than Blade Air Mobility when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.87% of users gave Blade Air Mobility an outperform vote while only 47.92% of users gave Priority Technology an outperform vote.
Priority Technology has a net margin of -0.17% compared to Priority Technology's net margin of -24.90%. Blade Air Mobility's return on equity of 0.00% beat Priority Technology's return on equity.
Summary
Blade Air Mobility beats Priority Technology on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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