ARC vs. PFMT, QUAD, MNTX, ISSC, PESI, SFWL, RAIL, DRTT, AQMS, and HRT
Should you be buying ARC Document Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ARC Document Solutions include Performant Financial (PFMT), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), Manitex International (MNTX), Innovative Solutions and Support (ISSC), Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Shengfeng Development (SFWL), FreightCar America (RAIL), DIRTT Environmental Solutions (DRTT), Aqua Metals (AQMS), and HireRight (HRT).
ARC Document Solutions (NYSE:ARC) and Performant Financial (NASDAQ:PFMT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
ARC Document Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Performant Financial. Performant Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ARC Document Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
48.9% of ARC Document Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Performant Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.0% of ARC Document Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Performant Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ARC Document Solutions has a net margin of 3.09% compared to Performant Financial's net margin of -6.34%. ARC Document Solutions' return on equity of 7.75% beat Performant Financial's return on equity.
ARC Document Solutions has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Performant Financial has a beta of 0.11, meaning that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Performant Financial had 1 more articles in the media than ARC Document Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Performant Financial and 3 mentions for ARC Document Solutions. Performant Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat ARC Document Solutions' score of 0.29 indicating that Performant Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Performant Financial received 4 more outperform votes than ARC Document Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.29% of users gave ARC Document Solutions an outperform vote while only 58.12% of users gave Performant Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
ARC Document Solutions beats Performant Financial on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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