PINC vs. MANT, TMX, RCM, EVH, FC, IT, BIO.B, ASND, LEGN, and BRBR
Should you be buying Premier stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier include ManTech International (MANT), Terminix Global (TMX), R1 RCM (RCM), Evolent Health (EVH), Franklin Covey (FC), Gartner (IT), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Legend Biotech (LEGN), and BellRing Brands (BRBR).
ManTech International (NASDAQ:MANT) and Premier (NASDAQ:PINC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
ManTech International pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Premier pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. ManTech International pays out 55.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Premier pays out 131.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Premier has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Premier is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Premier has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ManTech International. Premier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ManTech International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Premier has a consensus target price of $23.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24.21%. Given ManTech International's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Premier is more favorable than ManTech International.
94.5% of ManTech International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.4% of Premier shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of ManTech International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Premier shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ManTech International has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premier has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Premier had 16 more articles in the media than ManTech International. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Premier and 0 mentions for ManTech International. ManTech International's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Premier's score of 0.00 indicating that Premier is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Premier received 267 more outperform votes than ManTech International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.00% of users gave Premier an outperform vote while only 50.15% of users gave ManTech International an outperform vote.
Premier has a net margin of 6.01% compared to Premier's net margin of 4.67%. ManTech International's return on equity of 11.71% beat Premier's return on equity.
Summary
Premier beats ManTech International on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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