LICY vs. MAPS, REKR, GEOS, MRAM, INOD, HBIO, INVE, TRVG, RDCM, and ATOM
Should you be buying Li-Cycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Li-Cycle include WM Technology (MAPS), Rekor Systems (REKR), Geospace Technologies (GEOS), Everspin Technologies (MRAM), Innodata (INOD), Harvard Bioscience (HBIO), Identiv (INVE), trivago (TRVG), RADCOM (RDCM), and Atomera (ATOM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Li-Cycle (NYSE:LICY) and WM Technology (NASDAQ:MAPS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment and earnings.
In the previous week, Li-Cycle had 7 more articles in the media than WM Technology. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Li-Cycle and 1 mentions for WM Technology. WM Technology's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Li-Cycle's score of -0.28 indicating that WM Technology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Li-Cycle presently has a consensus price target of $7.60, indicating a potential upside of 737.56%. Given Li-Cycle's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Li-Cycle is more favorable than WM Technology.
Li-Cycle received 1 more outperform votes than WM Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 51.35% of users gave WM Technology an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Li-Cycle an outperform vote.
WM Technology has higher revenue and earnings than Li-Cycle. Li-Cycle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WM Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WM Technology has a net margin of -56.88% compared to Li-Cycle's net margin of -754.10%. Li-Cycle's return on equity of -13.33% beat WM Technology's return on equity.
Li-Cycle has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WM Technology has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
54.1% of Li-Cycle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.0% of WM Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 23.9% of Li-Cycle shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of WM Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Li-Cycle beats WM Technology on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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