STCN vs. EGIO, MCHX, HGBL, RSSS, DHX, NCTY, XELA, ZFOX, OPRX, and RMNI
Should you be buying Steel Connect stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steel Connect include Edgio (EGIO), Marchex (MCHX), Heritage Global (HGBL), Research Solutions (RSSS), DHI Group (DHX), The9 (NCTY), Exela Technologies (XELA), ZeroFox (ZFOX), OptimizeRx (OPRX), and Rimini Street (RMNI).
Edgio (NASDAQ:EGIO) and Steel Connect (NASDAQ:STCN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Steel Connect received 161 more outperform votes than Edgio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.31% of users gave Steel Connect an outperform vote while only 6.25% of users gave Edgio an outperform vote.
Edgio currently has a consensus target price of $33.33, indicating a potential upside of 204.41%. Given Steel Connect's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Edgio is more favorable than Steel Connect.
23.2% of Edgio shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.3% of Steel Connect shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Edgio shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Steel Connect shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Edgio has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steel Connect has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Steel Connect had 4 more articles in the media than Edgio. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Steel Connect and 5 mentions for Edgio. Edgio's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Steel Connect's score of -0.34 indicating that Steel Connect is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Steel Connect has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Edgio. Edgio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steel Connect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Steel Connect has a net margin of 12.23% compared to Steel Connect's net margin of -35.10%. Edgio's return on equity of 39.04% beat Steel Connect's return on equity.
Summary
Steel Connect beats Edgio on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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