LTBR vs. III, JUNE, LICN, ISDR, WHLM, AERT, AINC, CISO, RVYL, and ATIF
Should you be buying Lightbridge stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lightbridge include Information Services Group (III), Junee (JUNE), Lichen China (LICN), Issuer Direct (ISDR), Wilhelmina International (WHLM), Aeries Technology (AERT), Ashford (AINC), CISO Global (CISO), Ryvyl (RVYL), and ATIF (ATIF). These companies are all part of the "management consulting services" industry.
Information Services Group (NASDAQ:III) and Lightbridge (NASDAQ:LTBR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
Information Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Lightbridge. Information Services Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lightbridge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Information Services Group had 8 more articles in the media than Lightbridge. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Information Services Group and 2 mentions for Lightbridge. Information Services Group's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Lightbridge's score of 0.42 indicating that Lightbridge is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Information Services Group currently has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.72%. Given Lightbridge's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Information Services Group is more favorable than Lightbridge.
Information Services Group received 284 more outperform votes than Lightbridge when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.61% of users gave Information Services Group an outperform vote while only 59.76% of users gave Lightbridge an outperform vote.
Lightbridge has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Lightbridge's net margin of -0.26%. Lightbridge's return on equity of 7.81% beat Information Services Group's return on equity.
73.1% of Information Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.1% of Lightbridge shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Information Services Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Lightbridge shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Information Services Group has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Lightbridge has a beta of 2.45, suggesting that its share price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Information Services Group beats Lightbridge on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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