QNST vs. RILY, CNDT, IIIV, TRHC, EVOP, ENV, PRFT, ZD, YELP, and CMPR
Should you be buying QuinStreet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuinStreet include B. Riley Financial (RILY), Conduent (CNDT), i3 Verticals (IIIV), Tabula Rasa HealthCare (TRHC), EVO Payments (EVOP), Envestnet (ENV), Perficient (PRFT), Ziff Davis (ZD), Yelp (YELP), and Cimpress (CMPR).
B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) and QuinStreet (NASDAQ:QNST) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
B. Riley Financial has a net margin of -9.28% compared to B. Riley Financial's net margin of -15.59%. QuinStreet's return on equity of -25.84% beat B. Riley Financial's return on equity.
QuinStreet has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B. Riley Financial. QuinStreet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than B. Riley Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B. Riley Financial has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuinStreet has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
QuinStreet has a consensus price target of $20.38, indicating a potential upside of 15.70%. Given B. Riley Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe QuinStreet is more favorable than B. Riley Financial.
50.2% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of QuinStreet shares are held by institutional investors. 32.9% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of QuinStreet shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, QuinStreet had 3 more articles in the media than B. Riley Financial. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for QuinStreet and 3 mentions for B. Riley Financial. B. Riley Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat QuinStreet's score of 0.63 indicating that QuinStreet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
QuinStreet received 114 more outperform votes than B. Riley Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.03% of users gave B. Riley Financial an outperform vote while only 57.12% of users gave QuinStreet an outperform vote.
Summary
QuinStreet beats B. Riley Financial on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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