USIO vs. FLNT, ATER, ULY, VCIG, OWLT, SWVL, MOGO, AATC, JOB, and PALT
Should you be buying Usio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Usio include Fluent (FLNT), Aterian (ATER), Urgent.ly (ULY), VCI Global (VCIG), Owlet (OWLT), Swvl (SWVL), Mogo (MOGO), Autoscope Technologies (AATC), GEE Group (JOB), and Paltalk (PALT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Usio (NASDAQ:USIO) and Fluent (NASDAQ:FLNT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
In the previous week, Fluent had 11 more articles in the media than Usio. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Fluent and 8 mentions for Usio. Usio's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Fluent's score of 0.46 indicating that Usio is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Usio has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fluent has a beta of 2.52, meaning that its stock price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Usio has a net margin of -0.80% compared to Fluent's net margin of -22.22%. Usio's return on equity of -4.47% beat Fluent's return on equity.
Fluent received 121 more outperform votes than Usio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.94% of users gave Usio an outperform vote while only 48.72% of users gave Fluent an outperform vote.
Usio has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fluent. Usio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fluent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
18.9% of Usio shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.4% of Fluent shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Usio shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.0% of Fluent shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Usio presently has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 120.13%. Fluent has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 308.16%. Given Fluent's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fluent is more favorable than Usio.
Summary
Usio beats Fluent on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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