MCHX vs. ALJJ, HGBL, RSSS, DHX, TZOO, BCOV, LPSN, MOVE, XELA, and META
Should you be buying Marchex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marchex include ALJ Regional (ALJJ), Heritage Global (HGBL), Research Solutions (RSSS), DHI Group (DHX), Travelzoo (TZOO), Brightcove (BCOV), LivePerson (LPSN), Movano (MOVE), Exela Technologies (XELA), and Meta Platforms (META).
Marchex (NASDAQ:MCHX) and ALJ Regional (NASDAQ:ALJJ) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
73.5% of Marchex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.4% of ALJ Regional shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.3% of Marchex shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 66.3% of ALJ Regional shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ALJ Regional has higher revenue and earnings than Marchex. Marchex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ALJ Regional, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Marchex had 2 more articles in the media than ALJ Regional. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Marchex and 0 mentions for ALJ Regional. Marchex's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat ALJ Regional's score of 0.00 indicating that Marchex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Marchex has a beta of 1.95, meaning that its share price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ALJ Regional has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Marchex received 165 more outperform votes than ALJ Regional when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.45% of users gave ALJ Regional an outperform vote while only 51.76% of users gave Marchex an outperform vote.
ALJ Regional has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Marchex's net margin of -13.97%. ALJ Regional's return on equity of 0.00% beat Marchex's return on equity.
Summary
ALJ Regional beats Marchex on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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