CNDT vs. IIIV, RILY, TTGT, RDWR, QNST, DLO, FA, PAY, PAYO, and FLYW
Should you be buying Conduent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conduent include i3 Verticals (IIIV), B. Riley Financial (RILY), TechTarget (TTGT), Radware (RDWR), QuinStreet (QNST), DLocal (DLO), First Advantage (FA), Paymentus (PAY), Payoneer Global (PAYO), and Flywire (FLYW).
i3 Verticals (NASDAQ:IIIV) and Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
i3 Verticals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conduent. Conduent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than i3 Verticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
i3 Verticals has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduent has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
i3 Verticals currently has a consensus target price of $27.57, indicating a potential upside of 41.54%. Conduent has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 157.14%. Given i3 Verticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Conduent is more favorable than i3 Verticals.
84.2% of i3 Verticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. 34.0% of i3 Verticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
i3 Verticals received 134 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.82% of users gave i3 Verticals an outperform vote while only 30.00% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
i3 Verticals has a net margin of 0.63% compared to i3 Verticals' net margin of -5.13%. Conduent's return on equity of 8.91% beat i3 Verticals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Conduent had 6 more articles in the media than i3 Verticals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Conduent and 4 mentions for i3 Verticals. Conduent's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat i3 Verticals' score of 0.05 indicating that i3 Verticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
i3 Verticals beats Conduent on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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