PFMT vs. QUAD, ARC, GASS, ESEA, PESI, ISSC, MNTX, SLDP, SHIM, and SFWL
Should you be buying Performant Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performant Financial include Quad/Graphics (QUAD), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), StealthGas (GASS), Euroseas (ESEA), Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Innovative Solutions and Support (ISSC), Manitex International (MNTX), Solid Power (SLDP), Shimmick (SHIM), and Shengfeng Development (SFWL).
Quad/Graphics (NYSE:QUAD) and Performant Financial (NASDAQ:PFMT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Quad/Graphics presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 94.59%. Given Performant Financial's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Quad/Graphics is more favorable than Performant Financial.
Quad/Graphics has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Performant Financial has a beta of 0.07, indicating that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Quad/Graphics received 17 more outperform votes than Performant Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.99% of users gave Quad/Graphics an outperform vote while only 58.26% of users gave Performant Financial an outperform vote.
Performant Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Quad/Graphics. Performant Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quad/Graphics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Quad/Graphics has a net margin of -1.87% compared to Quad/Graphics' net margin of -6.61%. Performant Financial's return on equity of 18.28% beat Quad/Graphics' return on equity.
39.5% of Quad/Graphics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Performant Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of Quad/Graphics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Performant Financial shares are owned by company 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, Quad/Graphics had 8 more articles in the media than Performant Financial. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Quad/Graphics and 0 mentions for Performant Financial. Performant Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Quad/Graphics' score of 0.00 indicating that Quad/Graphics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Quad/Graphics beats Performant Financial on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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