PFMT vs. INSE, PRTH, RCMT, LSAK, AMPX, PMTS, BYRN, ADTH, LUNA, and NOTE
Should you be buying Performant Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performant Financial include Inspired Entertainment (INSE), Priority Technology (PRTH), RCM Technologies (RCMT), Lesaka Technologies (LSAK), Amprius Technologies (AMPX), CPI Card Group (PMTS), Byrna Technologies (BYRN), AdTheorent (ADTH), Luna Innovations (LUNA), and FiscalNote (NOTE). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Inspired Entertainment (NASDAQ:INSE) and Performant Financial (NASDAQ:PFMT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
Inspired Entertainment has a net margin of 3.22% compared to Inspired Entertainment's net margin of -6.61%. Inspired Entertainment's return on equity of -9.46% beat Performant Financial's return on equity.
Inspired Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 73.16%. Given Performant Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Inspired Entertainment is more favorable than Performant Financial.
Performant Financial received 112 more outperform votes than Inspired Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.26% of users gave Performant Financial an outperform vote while only 57.96% of users gave Inspired Entertainment an outperform vote.
Inspired Entertainment has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Performant Financial has a beta of 0.06, meaning that its stock price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Inspired Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than Performant Financial. Performant Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inspired Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Inspired Entertainment had 4 more articles in the media than Performant Financial. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Inspired Entertainment and 5 mentions for Performant Financial. Performant Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Inspired Entertainment's score of 0.24 indicating that Inspired Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
82.1% of Inspired Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of Performant Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.4% of Inspired Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Performant Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Inspired Entertainment beats Performant Financial on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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