Outbrain (OB) Competitors

Employers (NYSE:EIG) and Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of EIG or OB?

80.5% of Employers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.4% of Outbrain shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Employers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.9% of Outbrain shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is EIG or OB more profitable?

Employers has a net margin of 13.47% compared to Outbrain's net margin of 0.39%. Employers' return on equity of 8.99% beat Outbrain's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Employers	13.47%	8.99%	2.63%
Outbrain	0.39%	2.18%	0.79%

Which has more volatility and risk, EIG or OB?

Employers has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Outbrain has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer EIG or OB?

Employers received 12 more outperform votes than Outbrain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.28% of users gave Employers an outperform vote while only 60.18% of users gave Outbrain an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Employers	Outperform Votes 284 62.28%	Underperform Votes 172 37.72%
Outbrain	Outperform Votes 272 60.18%	Underperform Votes 180 39.82%

Do analysts prefer EIG or OB?

Employers currently has a consensus price target of $58.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.16%. Outbrain has a consensus price target of $7.10, indicating a potential upside of 164.43%. Given Outbrain's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Outbrain is more favorable than Employers.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Employers	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Outbrain	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Is EIG or OB a better dividend stock?

Employers pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Outbrain pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 31.3%. Employers pays out 31.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Outbrain pays out -115.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Employers has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Outbrain is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, EIG or OB?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Employers	$860.20M	1.36	$118.10M	$4.12	11.81
Outbrain	$959.27M	0.26	$10.24M	-$0.73	-3.68

Does the media refer more to EIG or OB?

In the previous week, Employers had 3 more articles in the media than Outbrain. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Employers and 0 mentions for Outbrain. Employers' average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Outbrain's score of 0.00 indicating that Employers is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Employers	Positive
Outbrain	Neutral

Summary

Employers beats Outbrain on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.