DLHC vs. HQI, RCMT, BGSF, HSON, TBI, TTEC, CCRN, BKSY, OB, and III
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), BlackSky Technology (BKSY), Outbrain (OB), and Information Services Group (III).
HireQuest (NASDAQ:HQI) and DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
11.1% of HireQuest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.5% of DLH shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.8% of HireQuest shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of DLH shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HireQuest has a net margin of 24.44% compared to HireQuest's net margin of 0.51%. DLH's return on equity of 14.14% 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.
In the previous week, HireQuest had 1 more articles in the media than DLH. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for HireQuest and 2 mentions for DLH. HireQuest's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat DLH's score of 0.46 indicating that DLH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HireQuest currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 71.29%. Given DLH's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe HireQuest is more favorable than DLH.
DLH received 278 more outperform votes than HireQuest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.92% of users gave DLH an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave HireQuest an outperform vote.
HireQuest has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DLH has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HireQuest beats DLH on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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