ACCD vs. LQDT, IMXI, VVI, CNDT, RGP, SHAP, PRTH, PSFE, SEZL, and PAYS
Should you be buying Accolade stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accolade include Liquidity Services (LQDT), International Money Express (IMXI), Viad (VVI), Conduent (CNDT), Resources Connection (RGP), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Priority Technology (PRTH), Paysafe (PSFE), Sezzle (SEZL), and Paysign (PAYS). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Accolade (NASDAQ:ACCD) and Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Liquidity Services received 349 more outperform votes than Accolade when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.95% of users gave Liquidity Services an outperform vote while only 58.13% of users gave Accolade an outperform vote.
Liquidity Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Accolade. Accolade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liquidity Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Accolade has a beta of 2.15, meaning that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liquidity Services has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Accolade had 2 more articles in the media than Liquidity Services. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Accolade and 6 mentions for Liquidity Services. Accolade's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Liquidity Services' score of 0.34 indicating that Accolade is being referred to more favorably in the media.
85.0% of Accolade shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Liquidity Services shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Accolade shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Liquidity Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Liquidity Services has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Accolade's net margin of -24.09%. Liquidity Services' return on equity of 18.51% beat Accolade's return on equity.
Accolade presently has a consensus target price of $14.14, indicating a potential upside of 89.08%. Liquidity Services has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.13%. Given Accolade's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Accolade is more favorable than Liquidity Services.
Summary
Liquidity Services beats Accolade on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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