ECX vs. SMRT, MDRX, BNAI, ARBE, TDCX, ICG, LNZA, CMPO, LQDT, and ADSE
Should you be buying ECARX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECARX include SmartRent (SMRT), Veradigm (MDRX), Brand Engagement Network (BNAI), Arbe Robotics (ARBE), TDCX (TDCX), Intchains Group (ICG), LanzaTech Global (LNZA), CompoSecure (CMPO), Liquidity Services (LQDT), and ADS-TEC Energy (ADSE). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
ECARX (NASDAQ:ECX) and SmartRent (NYSE:SMRT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
ECARX presently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 509.76%. SmartRent has a consensus price target of $4.18, suggesting a potential upside of 76.91%. Given ECARX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe ECARX is more favorable than SmartRent.
59.4% of SmartRent shares are held by institutional investors. 20.0% of ECARX shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of SmartRent shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SmartRent received 12 more outperform votes than ECARX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave ECARX an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave SmartRent an outperform vote.
ECARX has a beta of 0.13, indicating that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartRent has a beta of 2, indicating that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SmartRent has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ECARX. SmartRent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ECARX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SmartRent has a net margin of -14.60% compared to ECARX's net margin of -20.03%. ECARX's return on equity of 0.00% beat SmartRent's return on equity.
In the previous week, ECARX and ECARX both had 1 articles in the media. SmartRent's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat ECARX's score of 1.00 indicating that SmartRent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SmartRent beats ECARX on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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