FLNT vs. IZEA, STBX, USIO, ATER, ULY, VCIG, OWLT, SWVL, AATC, and MOGO
Should you be buying Fluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fluent include IZEA Worldwide (IZEA), Starbox Group (STBX), Usio (USIO), Aterian (ATER), Urgent.ly (ULY), VCI Global (VCIG), Owlet (OWLT), Swvl (SWVL), Autoscope Technologies (AATC), and Mogo (MOGO).
Fluent (NASDAQ:FLNT) and IZEA Worldwide (NASDAQ:IZEA) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
IZEA Worldwide has a net margin of -18.66% compared to Fluent's net margin of -22.22%. IZEA Worldwide's return on equity of -10.02% beat Fluent's return on equity.
IZEA Worldwide has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fluent. IZEA Worldwide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fluent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fluent currently has a consensus price target of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 308.16%. Given Fluent's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Fluent is more favorable than IZEA Worldwide.
23.4% of Fluent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.7% of IZEA Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 21.0% of Fluent shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of IZEA Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fluent received 7 more outperform votes than IZEA Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.57% of users gave IZEA Worldwide an outperform vote while only 48.72% of users gave Fluent an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Fluent had 16 more articles in the media than IZEA Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Fluent and 3 mentions for IZEA Worldwide. Fluent's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat IZEA Worldwide's score of 0.38 indicating that Fluent is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fluent has a beta of 2.52, suggesting that its share price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IZEA Worldwide has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fluent beats IZEA Worldwide on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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