CTOS vs. APLD, FTDR, HNGE, DLO, QMMM, HRI, WSC, RELY, CARG, and ATHM
Should you be buying Custom Truck One Source stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Custom Truck One Source include Applied Digital (APLD), Frontdoor (FTDR), Hinge Health (HNGE), DLocal (DLO), QMMM (QMMM), Herc (HRI), WillScot (WSC), Remitly Global (RELY), CarGurus (CARG), and Autohome (ATHM). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Custom Truck One Source vs. Its Competitors
Custom Truck One Source (NYSE:CTOS) and Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Custom Truck One Source has a net margin of -1.89% compared to Applied Digital's net margin of -107.22%. Custom Truck One Source's return on equity of -6.61% beat Applied Digital's return on equity.
Custom Truck One Source currently has a consensus price target of $6.38, suggesting a potential upside of 5.46%. Applied Digital has a consensus price target of $15.64, suggesting a potential downside of 36.05%. Given Custom Truck One Source's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Custom Truck One Source is more favorable than Applied Digital.
Custom Truck One Source has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Digital has a beta of 6.64, meaning that its share price is 564% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Applied Digital had 16 more articles in the media than Custom Truck One Source. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Applied Digital and 1 mentions for Custom Truck One Source. Applied Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Custom Truck One Source's score of 0.00 indicating that Applied Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
90.1% of Custom Truck One Source shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.7% of Applied Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Custom Truck One Source shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Applied Digital shares are owned by company 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.
Custom Truck One Source has higher revenue and earnings than Applied Digital. Custom Truck One Source is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Applied Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Applied Digital beats Custom Truck One Source on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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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This page (NYSE:CTOS) was last updated on 9/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
