DFIN vs. MRCY, SPNS, SGML, TTMI, SOUN, IONQ, PLAB, PD, SPT, and BB
Should you be buying Donnelley Financial Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donnelley Financial Solutions include Mercury Systems (MRCY), Sapiens International (SPNS), Sigma Lithium (SGML), TTM Technologies (TTMI), SoundHound AI (SOUN), IonQ (IONQ), Photronics (PLAB), PagerDuty (PD), Sprout Social (SPT), and BlackBerry (BB). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE:DFIN) and Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and community ranking.
Donnelley Financial Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.21%. Mercury Systems has a consensus price target of $28.50, indicating a potential downside of 8.83%. Given Donnelley Financial Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Donnelley Financial Solutions is more favorable than Mercury Systems.
Mercury Systems received 190 more outperform votes than Donnelley Financial Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.30% of users gave Mercury Systems an outperform vote while only 62.47% of users gave Donnelley Financial Solutions an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Mercury Systems had 6 more articles in the media than Donnelley Financial Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Mercury Systems and 2 mentions for Donnelley Financial Solutions. Donnelley Financial Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Mercury Systems' score of 1.32 indicating that Donnelley Financial Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
93.8% of Donnelley Financial Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Mercury Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of Donnelley Financial Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Mercury Systems shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Donnelley Financial Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mercury Systems. Mercury Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Donnelley Financial Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Donnelley Financial Solutions has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercury Systems has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Donnelley Financial Solutions has a net margin of 12.43% compared to Mercury Systems' net margin of -16.08%. Donnelley Financial Solutions' return on equity of 24.68% beat Mercury Systems' return on equity.
Summary
Donnelley Financial Solutions beats Mercury Systems on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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