HCSG vs. GB, MDRX, PSFE, VMEO, DLX, NRC, NYAX, CRAI, KELYA, and PCT
Should you be buying Healthcare Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Healthcare Services Group include Global Blue Group (GB), Veradigm (MDRX), Paysafe (PSFE), Vimeo (VMEO), Deluxe (DLX), National Research (NRC), Nayax (NYAX), CRA International (CRAI), Kelly Services (KELYA), and PureCycle Technologies (PCT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Healthcare Services Group (NASDAQ:HCSG) and Global Blue Group (NYSE:GB) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
98.0% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Global Blue Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Healthcare Services Group presently has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential upside of 15.72%. Global Blue Group has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 59.68%. Given Global Blue Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Global Blue Group is more favorable than Healthcare Services Group.
Global Blue Group has a net margin of 5.28% compared to Healthcare Services Group's net margin of 2.30%. Global Blue Group's return on equity of 87.79% beat Healthcare Services Group's return on equity.
Healthcare Services Group has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Blue Group has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Healthcare Services Group had 1 more articles in the media than Global Blue Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Healthcare Services Group and 3 mentions for Global Blue Group. Healthcare Services Group's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Global Blue Group's score of 0.68 indicating that Healthcare Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Healthcare Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Global Blue Group. Healthcare Services Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Blue Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Healthcare Services Group received 294 more outperform votes than Global Blue Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Global Blue Group an outperform vote while only 55.95% of users gave Healthcare Services Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Healthcare Services Group beats Global Blue Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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