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MAX vs. CLVT, WNS, FA, ACVA, DXC, YY, RNG, PAYO, EVTC, and APLD

Should you be buying MediaAlpha stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MediaAlpha include Clarivate (CLVT), WNS (WNS), First Advantage (FA), ACV Auctions (ACVA), DXC Technology (DXC), JOYY (YY), Ringcentral (RNG), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Evertec (EVTC), and Applied Digital (APLD). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

MediaAlpha vs. Its Competitors

Clarivate (NYSE:CLVT) and MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.

85.7% of Clarivate shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.2% of Clarivate shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Clarivate presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.38%. MediaAlpha has a consensus price target of $17.92, suggesting a potential upside of 76.52%. Given MediaAlpha's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MediaAlpha is more favorable than Clarivate.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Clarivate
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.67
MediaAlpha
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Clarivate had 5 more articles in the media than MediaAlpha. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Clarivate and 0 mentions for MediaAlpha. MediaAlpha's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Clarivate's score of 0.62 indicating that MediaAlpha is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Clarivate Positive
MediaAlpha Positive

MediaAlpha has a net margin of 1.58% compared to Clarivate's net margin of -26.32%. Clarivate's return on equity of 8.75% beat MediaAlpha's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Clarivate-26.32% 8.75% 3.96%
MediaAlpha 1.58%-46.92%11.27%

MediaAlpha has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Clarivate. Clarivate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MediaAlpha, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Clarivate$2.56B1.18-$636.70M-$0.97-4.55
MediaAlpha$864.70M0.79$16.63M$0.2836.25

Clarivate has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

MediaAlpha beats Clarivate on 9 of the 16 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 MAX 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 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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MAX vs. The Competition

MetricMediaAlphaTechnology Services IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$703.82M$2.41B$13.21B$20.71B
Dividend YieldN/A1.37%2.68%3.72%
P/E Ratio36.2531.0528.5627.80
Price / Sales0.7934.9039.8447.18
Price / Cash29.2841.4726.0718.22
Price / Book-14.715.866.274.59
Net Income$16.63M$32.07M$188.15M$982.91M
7 Day Performance-6.71%4.00%1.87%0.65%
1 Month Performance-3.96%4.46%2.51%4.26%
1 Year Performance-19.70%54.42%37.40%13.93%

MediaAlpha Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MAX
MediaAlpha
3.4915 of 5 stars
$10.15
-3.3%
$17.92
+76.5%
-18.9%$703.82M$864.70M36.25160
CLVT
Clarivate
2.054 of 5 stars
$4.32
+0.2%
$5.00
+15.7%
-21.1%$2.95B$2.56B-4.4512,000
WNS
WNS
1.266 of 5 stars
$63.41
+4.9%
$62.25
-1.8%
+38.5%$2.94B$1.31B17.0564,505Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
FA
First Advantage
2.4155 of 5 stars
$16.61
+5.1%
$66.00
+297.4%
+7.7%$2.88B$1.05B553.675,500Positive News
ACVA
ACV Auctions
2.4473 of 5 stars
$16.25
+1.1%
$22.50
+38.5%
-10.6%$2.78B$674.16M-33.162,000Analyst Forecast
DXC
DXC Technology
3.357 of 5 stars
$15.29
+1.7%
$17.00
+11.2%
-15.2%$2.77B$12.87B7.25120,000
YY
JOYY
1.9592 of 5 stars
$50.90
+0.6%
$35.00
-31.2%
+57.0%$2.74B$2.24B15.387,450Positive News
RNG
Ringcentral
4.5548 of 5 stars
$28.36
+2.1%
$33.08
+16.6%
+6.1%$2.55B$2.40B-64.454,260Analyst Upgrade
PAYO
Payoneer Global
4.2462 of 5 stars
$6.85
+3.3%
$10.44
+52.4%
+22.3%$2.48B$977.72M22.832,407
EVTC
Evertec
2.4173 of 5 stars
$36.08
+0.5%
$40.00
+10.9%
+12.8%$2.30B$868.96M18.134,800
APLD
Applied Digital
3.6029 of 5 stars
$10.07
-3.0%
$12.73
+26.4%
+39.2%$2.27B$165.57M-7.35121Gap Down

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