QNST vs. CNDT, IIIV, RILY, EVOP, TRHC, ENV, PRFT, YELP, CMPR, and ZD
Should you be buying QuinStreet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuinStreet include Conduent (CNDT), i3 Verticals (IIIV), B. Riley Financial (RILY), EVO Payments (EVOP), Tabula Rasa HealthCare (TRHC), Envestnet (ENV), Perficient (PRFT), Yelp (YELP), Cimpress (CMPR), and Ziff Davis (ZD).
Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) and QuinStreet (NASDAQ:QNST) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Conduent has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuinStreet has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
QuinStreet has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Conduent. QuinStreet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Conduent has a net margin of -5.13% compared to Conduent's net margin of -15.59%. QuinStreet's return on equity of -2.50% beat Conduent's return on equity.
QuinStreet received 284 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.28% of users gave QuinStreet an outperform vote while only 30.00% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Conduent had 1 more articles in the media than QuinStreet. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Conduent and 5 mentions for QuinStreet. Conduent's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat QuinStreet's score of 0.79 indicating that QuinStreet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of QuinStreet shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of QuinStreet shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Conduent currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 116.35%. QuinStreet has a consensus price target of $20.88, suggesting a potential upside of 10.57%. Given QuinStreet's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Conduent is more favorable than QuinStreet.
Summary
Conduent beats QuinStreet on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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