RSSS vs. HGBL, STCN, DHX, MCHX, CCRC, MPLN, PRTH, ZH, SHAP, and PAYS
Should you be buying Research Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Research Solutions include Heritage Global (HGBL), Steel Connect (STCN), DHI Group (DHX), Marchex (MCHX), China Customer Relations Centers (CCRC), MultiPlan (MPLN), Priority Technology (PRTH), Zhihu (ZH), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), and Paysign (PAYS).
Research Solutions (NASDAQ:RSSS) and Heritage Global (NASDAQ:HGBL) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Research Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $5.12, suggesting a potential upside of 96.04%. Heritage Global has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 163.16%. Given Heritage Global's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Heritage Global is more favorable than Research Solutions.
Research Solutions has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Global has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Research Solutions had 10 more articles in the media than Heritage Global. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Research Solutions and 3 mentions for Heritage Global. Heritage Global's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Research Solutions' score of 0.29 indicating that Heritage Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Heritage Global has higher revenue and earnings than Research Solutions. Research Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heritage Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
33.6% of Research Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.5% of Heritage Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.5% of Research Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Heritage Global shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Heritage Global has a net margin of 20.40% compared to Research Solutions' net margin of -1.39%. Heritage Global's return on equity of 20.56% beat Research Solutions' return on equity.
Research Solutions received 5 more outperform votes than Heritage Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.57% of users gave Research Solutions an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Heritage Global an outperform vote.
Summary
Heritage Global beats Research Solutions on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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