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$18.28 -0.37 (-1.98%)
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TCX vs. CARS, NRDS, RSKD, MAX, BWMN, UXIN, IBTA, PRTH, NEXN, and ADV

Should you be buying Tucows stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tucows include Cars.com (CARS), NerdWallet (NRDS), Riskified (RSKD), MediaAlpha (MAX), Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), Uxin (UXIN), Ibotta (IBTA), Priority Technology (PRTH), Nexxen International (NEXN), and Advantage Solutions (ADV). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Tucows vs. Its Competitors

Cars.com (NYSE:CARS) and Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Cars.com presently has a consensus price target of $17.30, indicating a potential upside of 32.30%. Given Cars.com's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Cars.com is more favorable than Tucows.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cars.com
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Tucows
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Cars.com has a net margin of 5.71% compared to Tucows' net margin of -25.99%. Cars.com's return on equity of 17.43% beat Tucows' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cars.com5.71% 17.43% 7.91%
Tucows -25.99%N/A -9.05%

Cars.com has higher revenue and earnings than Tucows. Tucows is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cars.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cars.com$717.85M1.12$48.19M$0.6221.09
Tucows$362.27M0.56-$109.86M-$8.92-2.05

In the previous week, Cars.com had 7 more articles in the media than Tucows. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cars.com and 2 mentions for Tucows. Tucows' average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Cars.com's score of 1.23 indicating that Tucows is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Cars.com
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Tucows
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Cars.com has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tucows has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

89.2% of Cars.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Tucows shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of Cars.com shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.6% of Tucows shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Cars.com beats Tucows on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TCX and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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TCX vs. The Competition

MetricTucowsINTERNET CONTENT IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$202.54M$4.02B$29.79B$9.74B
Dividend YieldN/A5.12%3.19%4.48%
P/E Ratio-2.058.63419.8226.59
Price / Sales0.562.271,455.37159.07
Price / CashN/A21.8634.2828.92
Price / Book-2.114.577.056.08
Net Income-$109.86M$121.37M$807.18M$265.93M
7 Day Performance1.16%6.47%0.74%0.36%
1 Month Performance10.72%8.13%4.42%5.58%
1 Year Performance-14.62%11.35%24,221.14%19.67%

Tucows Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TCX
Tucows
1.2787 of 5 stars
$18.28
-2.0%
N/A-14.6%$202.51M$362.27M0.001,000
CARS
Cars.com
4.3988 of 5 stars
$12.97
-2.3%
$17.30
+33.4%
-26.7%$815.38M$717.85M20.921,800Positive News
NRDS
NerdWallet
3.5737 of 5 stars
$10.32
-1.0%
$13.60
+31.8%
-20.0%$791.92M$687.60M16.65770
RSKD
Riskified
2.7341 of 5 stars
$4.58
flat
$5.82
+27.1%
-7.9%$738.34M$327.52M-19.08780
MAX
MediaAlpha
3.7466 of 5 stars
$10.26
-1.3%
$17.92
+74.6%
-40.6%$706.62M$1.08B-85.49160Positive News
BWMN
Bowman Consulting Group
2.1812 of 5 stars
$40.60
-0.4%
$34.17
-15.8%
+78.0%$702.97M$426.56M67.672,200Positive News
Analyst Forecast
UXIN
Uxin
0.5123 of 5 stars
$4.17
+13.0%
N/A+147.5%$693.67M$190.40M-20.85810Positive News
High Trading Volume
IBTA
Ibotta
3.3397 of 5 stars
$25.82
-5.6%
$34.71
+34.4%
N/A$691.15M$367.25M8.97N/AAnalyst Downgrade
PRTH
Priority Technology
4.4553 of 5 stars
$8.29
-1.7%
$13.00
+56.8%
+39.5%$673.71M$918.56M31.881,019
NEXN
Nexxen International
3.4821 of 5 stars
$10.07
-1.0%
$15.00
+49.0%
+28.4%$644.95M$365.48M15.98895
ADV
Advantage Solutions
2.5859 of 5 stars
$1.87
-1.1%
$2.25
+20.3%
-53.0%$616.04M$3.57B-1.9969,000Positive News

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