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Paltalk (PALT) Competitors

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$1.92 +0.01 (+0.52%)
As of 07/2/2025

PALT vs. MHH, DLHC, HGBL, TETE, QMMM, VERI, TZUP, FORA, NOTV, and INUV

Should you be buying Paltalk stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paltalk include Mastech Digital (MHH), DLH (DLHC), Heritage Global (HGBL), Technology & Telecommunication Acquisition (TETE), QMMM (QMMM), Veritone (VERI), Thumzup Media (TZUP), Forian (FORA), Inotiv (NOTV), and Inuvo (INUV). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Paltalk vs. Its Competitors

Paltalk (NASDAQ:PALT) and Mastech Digital (NYSE:MHH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Paltalk$9.64M1.84-$1.07M-$0.34-5.65
Mastech Digital$200.44M0.41-$7.14M$0.1838.94

Mastech Digital has a net margin of 1.71% compared to Paltalk's net margin of -33.40%. Mastech Digital's return on equity of 8.20% beat Paltalk's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Paltalk-33.40% -16.94% -14.15%
Mastech Digital 1.71%8.20%6.36%

3.9% of Paltalk shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.4% of Mastech Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 18.7% of Paltalk shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.6% of Mastech Digital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Paltalk
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Mastech Digital
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

In the previous week, Mastech Digital had 1 more articles in the media than Paltalk. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Mastech Digital and 0 mentions for Paltalk. Mastech Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Paltalk's score of 0.00 indicating that Mastech Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Paltalk Neutral
Mastech Digital Positive

Paltalk has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mastech Digital has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Mastech Digital beats Paltalk on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PALT vs. The Competition

MetricPaltalkBusiness services IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$18.75M$590.20M$13.02B$8.95B
Dividend YieldN/A4.42%2.56%4.08%
P/E Ratio-5.6564.1228.6620.04
Price / Sales1.845.7439.43118.60
Price / CashN/A5.2225.6857.47
Price / Book0.884.966.275.67
Net Income-$1.07M-$4.44M$187.50M$248.47M
7 Day Performance-13.51%0.50%2.91%2.90%
1 Month Performance-12.73%-0.09%4.88%5.75%
1 Year Performance-50.64%6.44%35.10%21.36%

Paltalk Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PALT
Paltalk
N/A$1.92
+0.5%
N/A-50.9%$18.75M$9.64M-5.6520
MHH
Mastech Digital
4.1699 of 5 stars
$6.77
+0.5%
N/AN/A$79.59M$200.44M23.331,160News Coverage
DLHC
DLH
3.4917 of 5 stars
$5.53
-0.8%
N/A-46.0%$79.51M$395.94M14.542,800Positive News
HGBL
Heritage Global
2.7971 of 5 stars
$2.24
-0.7%
$4.00
+79.0%
-6.7%$79.23M$45.36M18.6360Positive News
TETE
Technology & Telecommunication Acquisition
N/A$12.41
+2.4%
N/AN/A$74.18MN/A0.002High Trading Volume
QMMM
QMMM
N/A$1.25
+4.6%
N/AN/A$71.23M$2.70M0.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
VERI
Veritone
3.6193 of 5 stars
$1.47
+8.1%
$4.63
+214.6%
-39.1%$68.38M$92.64M-1.67550News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
TZUP
Thumzup Media
N/A$7.01
+0.3%
N/AN/A$66.67MN/A-10.316News Coverage
FORA
Forian
2.1927 of 5 stars
$2.12
-4.5%
$5.00
+135.8%
-25.4%$66.15M$22.33M-23.56140Gap Down
NOTV
Inotiv
2.5431 of 5 stars
$1.83
-5.9%
$5.00
+174.0%
+25.8%$62.69M$490.74M-0.572,075Negative News
INUV
Inuvo
2.6383 of 5 stars
$4.27
+14.0%
$20.00
+368.9%
+86.8%$61.88M$93.48M-71.5080News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:PALT) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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