LZ vs. SSTK, FRG, OPRX, ACVA, NVEI, LYFT, CLVT, ALIT, MARA, and DXC
Should you be buying LegalZoom.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LegalZoom.com include Shutterstock (SSTK), Franchise Group (FRG), OptimizeRx (OPRX), ACV Auctions (ACVA), Nuvei (NVEI), Lyft (LYFT), Clarivate (CLVT), Alight (ALIT), Marathon Digital (MARA), and DXC Technology (DXC).
LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ) and Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shutterstock has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Shutterstock has higher revenue and earnings than LegalZoom.com. Shutterstock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LegalZoom.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shutterstock has a net margin of 5.33% compared to LegalZoom.com's net margin of 3.10%. LegalZoom.com's return on equity of 22.36% beat Shutterstock's return on equity.
82.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Shutterstock shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of LegalZoom.com shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of Shutterstock shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Shutterstock received 307 more outperform votes than LegalZoom.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.89% of users gave Shutterstock an outperform vote while only 34.18% of users gave LegalZoom.com an outperform vote.
LegalZoom.com presently has a consensus target price of $9.79, suggesting a potential upside of 56.07%. Shutterstock has a consensus target price of $63.25, suggesting a potential upside of 88.19%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than LegalZoom.com.
In the previous week, Shutterstock had 1 more articles in the media than LegalZoom.com. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Shutterstock and 5 mentions for LegalZoom.com. Shutterstock's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat LegalZoom.com's score of 0.03 indicating that Shutterstock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Shutterstock beats LegalZoom.com on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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