SCSC vs. WSTG, AGYS, CNXN, RELL, SNX, NSIT, ARW, PLUS, CLMB, and MSM
Should you be buying ScanSource stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ScanSource include Wayside Technology Group (WSTG), Agilysys (AGYS), PC Connection (CNXN), Richardson Electronics (RELL), TD SYNNEX (SNX), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Arrow Electronics (ARW), ePlus (PLUS), Climb Global Solutions (CLMB), and MSC Industrial Direct (MSM).
Wayside Technology Group (NASDAQ:WSTG) and ScanSource (NASDAQ:SCSC) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
ScanSource received 108 more outperform votes than Wayside Technology Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.39% of users gave ScanSource an outperform vote while only 46.30% of users gave Wayside Technology Group an outperform vote.
Wayside Technology Group has a net margin of 4.02% compared to Wayside Technology Group's net margin of 2.31%. ScanSource's return on equity of 21.67% beat Wayside Technology Group's return on equity.
ScanSource has a consensus target price of $35.50, indicating a potential downside of 29.54%.
In the previous week, ScanSource had 4 more articles in the media than Wayside Technology Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ScanSource and 0 mentions for Wayside Technology Group. Wayside Technology Group's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat ScanSource's score of 0.00 indicating that ScanSource is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wayside Technology Group has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ScanSource has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
42.9% of Wayside Technology Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of ScanSource shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Wayside Technology Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of ScanSource shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ScanSource has higher revenue and earnings than Wayside Technology Group. Wayside Technology Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ScanSource, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ScanSource beats Wayside Technology Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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