RCMT vs. DLHC, HQI, SRT, BGSF, HSON, TBI, KELYA, INSE, LUNA, and OB
Should you be buying RCM Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RCM Technologies include DLH (DLHC), HireQuest (HQI), Startek (SRT), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), TrueBlue (TBI), Kelly Services (KELYA), Inspired Entertainment (INSE), Luna Innovations (LUNA), and Outbrain (OB). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
RCM Technologies (NASDAQ:RCMT) and DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
DLH has higher revenue and earnings than RCM Technologies. RCM Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DLH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, DLH had 7 more articles in the media than RCM Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for DLH and 4 mentions for RCM Technologies. DLH's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat RCM Technologies' score of 0.58 indicating that DLH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RCM Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.12%. Given RCM Technologies' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe RCM Technologies is more favorable than DLH.
RCM Technologies has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DLH has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
31.4% of RCM Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.5% of DLH shares are held by institutional investors. 32.3% of RCM Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of DLH shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
DLH received 139 more outperform votes than RCM Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.84% of users gave DLH an outperform vote while only 64.16% of users gave RCM Technologies an outperform vote.
RCM Technologies has a net margin of 6.25% compared to DLH's net margin of 0.39%. RCM Technologies' return on equity of 63.01% beat DLH's return on equity.
Summary
DLH beats RCM Technologies on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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