ISDR vs. VERI, MHH, SY, VCSA, HGBL, LUNA, QXO, FORA, PSQH, and BABA
Should you be buying Issuer Direct stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Issuer Direct include Veritone (VERI), Mastech Digital (MHH), So-Young International (SY), Vacasa (VCSA), Heritage Global (HGBL), Luna Innovations (LUNA), QXO (QXO), Forian (FORA), PSQ (PSQH), and Alibaba Group (BABA). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Veritone (NASDAQ:VERI) and Issuer Direct (NYSE:ISDR) 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 dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Veritone had 2 more articles in the media than Issuer Direct. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Veritone and 1 mentions for Issuer Direct. Issuer Direct's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Veritone's score of 0.00 indicating that Veritone is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Veritone currently has a consensus target price of $2.25, indicating a potential downside of 23.99%. Given Issuer Direct's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Veritone is more favorable than Issuer Direct.
Veritone received 275 more outperform votes than Issuer Direct when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 91.18% of users gave Issuer Direct an outperform vote while only 61.20% of users gave Veritone an outperform vote.
Issuer Direct has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Veritone. Veritone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Issuer Direct, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
39.2% of Veritone shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Issuer Direct shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.6% of Veritone shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.1% of Issuer Direct shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Veritone has a beta of 3.33, suggesting that its stock price is 233% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Issuer Direct has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Issuer Direct has a net margin of 2.43% compared to Issuer Direct's net margin of -44.39%. Veritone's return on equity of 9.01% beat Issuer Direct's return on equity.
Summary
Issuer Direct beats Veritone on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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