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MCHX vs. BCOV, TZOO, DHX, LPSN, MOVE, META, EQIX, SE, EBAY, and CSGP

Should you be buying Marchex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marchex include Brightcove (BCOV), Travelzoo (TZOO), DHI Group (DHX), LivePerson (LPSN), Movano (MOVE), Meta Platforms (META), Equinix (EQIX), SEA (SE), eBay (EBAY), and CoStar Group (CSGP). These companies are all part of the "internet software & services" industry.

Marchex vs.

Brightcove (NASDAQ:BCOV) and Marchex (NASDAQ:MCHX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Brightcove currently has a consensus target price of $3.98, suggesting a potential downside of 10.67%. Given Brightcove's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Brightcove is more favorable than Marchex.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Brightcove
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Marchex
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Brightcove received 112 more outperform votes than Marchex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.22% of users gave Brightcove an outperform vote while only 47.98% of users gave Marchex an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BrightcoveOutperform Votes
421
73.22%
Underperform Votes
154
26.78%
MarchexOutperform Votes
309
47.98%
Underperform Votes
335
52.02%

Brightcove has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marchex has a beta of 1.78, suggesting that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Brightcove has a net margin of -4.57% compared to Marchex's net margin of -8.60%. Brightcove's return on equity of -9.46% beat Marchex's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Brightcove-4.57% -9.46% -4.20%
Marchex -8.60%-10.76%-8.21%

80.1% of Brightcove shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.5% of Marchex shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Brightcove shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.7% of Marchex shares are owned 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.

In the previous week, Marchex had 2 more articles in the media than Brightcove. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Marchex and 0 mentions for Brightcove. Marchex's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Brightcove's score of 0.00 indicating that Marchex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Brightcove Neutral
Marchex Neutral

Marchex has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brightcove. Brightcove is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marchex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Brightcove$201.19M1.00-$22.89M-$0.21-21.19
Marchex$47.95M1.54-$9.91M-$0.13-12.99

Summary

Brightcove beats Marchex on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MCHX vs. The Competition

MetricMarchexBusiness services IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$74.31M$21.61B$25.13B$8.39B
Dividend YieldN/A2.62%2.90%4.10%
P/E Ratio-18.8937.6944.6019.72
Price / Sales1.547.832,089.90116.20
Price / CashN/A32.3034.7934.62
Price / Book2.035.876.654.51
Net Income-$9.91M$692.23M$740.65M$248.18M
7 Day Performance12.60%-1.28%-0.89%1.14%
1 Month Performance19.36%29.58%14.51%15.07%
1 Year Performance27.95%35.04%52,510.53%6.59%

Marchex Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MCHX
Marchex
2.4178 of 5 stars
$1.67
+1.8%
N/A+26.5%$73.00M$47.95M-18.55190Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
BCOV
Brightcove
0.4735 of 5 stars
$4.45
flat
$3.98
-10.7%
N/A$202.12M$201.19M-21.19720Analyst Forecast
TZOO
Travelzoo
3.4855 of 5 stars
$14.22
-3.0%
$25.00
+75.8%
+56.7%$159.90M$85.06M13.29210Gap Up
DHX
DHI Group
3.6719 of 5 stars
$1.82
-1.6%
$5.25
+188.5%
-17.5%$87.86M$141.93M182.18530
LPSN
LivePerson
1.7763 of 5 stars
$0.85
-1.2%
$0.83
-2.3%
+7.0%$77.91M$312.47M-0.561,540Analyst Downgrade
MOVE
Movano
2.2981 of 5 stars
$0.89
+11.4%
$30.00
+3,286.0%
-91.3%$6.24M$1.01M-0.1730Trending News
Gap Up
META
Meta Platforms
4.3023 of 5 stars
$639.43
+7.9%
$696.45
+8.9%
+36.8%$1.62T$170.36B26.7386,500Trending News
Insider Trade
EQIX
Equinix
4.6774 of 5 stars
$870.47
+0.7%
$1,004.89
+15.4%
+8.4%$85.15B$8.85B101.8112,100Positive News
Analyst Forecast
SE
SEA
2.9697 of 5 stars
$141.98
+2.0%
$130.00
-8.4%
+122.6%$81.99B$16.82B946.5567,300Positive News
Options Volume
EBAY
eBay
4.5926 of 5 stars
$69.16
-0.5%
$67.42
-2.5%
+37.2%$31.88B$10.31B17.3811,600
CSGP
CoStar Group
3.6258 of 5 stars
$75.38
+1.1%
$88.31
+17.2%
-14.8%$31.80B$2.81B215.375,650News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:MCHX) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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