HQI vs. DLHC, RCMT, BGSF, HSON, TBI, TTEC, CCRN, MRAM, PONO, and MTC
Should you be buying HireQuest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HireQuest include DLH (DLHC), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), TrueBlue (TBI), TTEC (TTEC), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Everspin Technologies (MRAM), Pono Capital (PONO), and MMTec (MTC).
HireQuest (NASDAQ:HQI) and DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
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.
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.
11.1% of HireQuest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.5% of DLH shares are held by institutional investors. 45.8% of HireQuest shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of DLH shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, HireQuest and HireQuest both had 3 articles in the media. DLH's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat HireQuest's score of 0.46 indicating that DLH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 net margin of 24.44% compared to DLH's net margin of 0.51%. HireQuest's return on equity of 14.14% beat DLH's return on equity.
HireQuest currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 71.29%. Given HireQuest's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe HireQuest is more favorable than DLH.
Summary
HireQuest beats DLH on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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