DLHC vs. HQI, RCMT, BGSF, HSON, TBI, TTEC, CCRN, QRHC, NOTE, and GSMG
Should you be buying DLH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DLH include HireQuest (HQI), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), TrueBlue (TBI), TTEC (TTEC), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Quest Resource (QRHC), FiscalNote (NOTE), and Glory Star New Media Group (GSMG). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
HireQuest (NASDAQ:HQI) and DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) 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 dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings and risk.
HireQuest has a net margin of 16.20% compared to HireQuest's net margin of 0.51%. DLH's return on equity of 10.37% beat HireQuest's return on equity.
HireQuest has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DLH. HireQuest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DLH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DLH received 278 more outperform votes than HireQuest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.08% of users gave DLH an outperform vote while only 56.25% of users gave HireQuest an outperform vote.
HireQuest has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DLH has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DLH had 2 more articles in the media than HireQuest. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for DLH and 0 mentions for HireQuest. HireQuest's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat DLH's score of 0.00 indicating that DLH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
12.0% of HireQuest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of DLH shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.8% of HireQuest shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of DLH shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HireQuest presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 70.04%. Given DLH's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe HireQuest is more favorable than DLH.
Summary
HireQuest beats DLH on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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