IZEA vs. QRHC, PESI, QBTS, RMNI, BTOC, III, RCMT, MPLN, DLHC, and OPRX
Should you be buying IZEA Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IZEA Worldwide include Quest Resource (QRHC), Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), Rimini Street (RMNI), Armlogi (BTOC), Information Services Group (III), RCM Technologies (RCMT), MultiPlan (MPLN), DLH (DLHC), and OptimizeRx (OPRX). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Quest Resource (NASDAQ:QRHC) and IZEA Worldwide (NASDAQ:IZEA) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Quest Resource has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IZEA Worldwide has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Quest Resource received 12 more outperform votes than IZEA Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.57% of users gave IZEA Worldwide an outperform vote while only 55.35% of users gave Quest Resource an outperform vote.
Quest Resource has higher revenue and earnings than IZEA Worldwide. Quest Resource is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IZEA Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, IZEA Worldwide had 6 more articles in the media than Quest Resource. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for IZEA Worldwide and 2 mentions for Quest Resource. Quest Resource's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat IZEA Worldwide's score of 0.36 indicating that Quest Resource is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Quest Resource presently has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.06%. Given Quest Resource's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Quest Resource is more favorable than IZEA Worldwide.
48.2% of Quest Resource shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.6% of IZEA Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 22.8% of Quest Resource shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of IZEA Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Quest Resource has a net margin of -2.29% compared to IZEA Worldwide's net margin of -27.32%. Quest Resource's return on equity of 5.61% beat IZEA Worldwide's return on equity.
Summary
Quest Resource beats IZEA Worldwide on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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