ZH vs. PHR, EEX, MAX, PSFE, RSKD, ADV, QNST, RPAY, FVRR, and RDWR
Should you be buying Zhihu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zhihu include Phreesia (PHR), Emerald (EEX), MediaAlpha (MAX), Paysafe (PSFE), Riskified (RSKD), Advantage Solutions (ADV), QuinStreet (QNST), Repay (RPAY), Fiverr International (FVRR), and Radware (RDWR). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Phreesia (NYSE:PHR) and Zhihu (NYSE:ZH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Phreesia had 14 more articles in the media than Zhihu. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Phreesia and 4 mentions for Zhihu. Zhihu's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Phreesia's score of 0.02 indicating that Phreesia is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Phreesia received 116 more outperform votes than Zhihu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.46% of users gave Phreesia an outperform vote while only 45.83% of users gave Zhihu an outperform vote.
Zhihu has higher revenue and earnings than Phreesia. Phreesia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zhihu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Phreesia has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zhihu has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
92.1% of Phreesia shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.9% of Zhihu shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Phreesia shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of Zhihu shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Zhihu has a net margin of -20.00% compared to Zhihu's net margin of -31.87%. Phreesia's return on equity of -16.32% beat Zhihu's return on equity.
Phreesia currently has a consensus target price of $31.38, suggesting a potential upside of 65.88%. Given Zhihu's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Phreesia is more favorable than Zhihu.
Summary
Phreesia beats Zhihu on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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