ACTG vs. VOCL, DADA, RDUS, BWMN, NNOX, LNZA, WDH, SMRT, GDOT, and ECX
Should you be buying Acacia Research stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acacia Research include Creatd (VOCL), Dada Nexus (DADA), Radius Recycling (RDUS), Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), Nano-X Imaging (NNOX), LanzaTech Global (LNZA), Waterdrop (WDH), SmartRent (SMRT), Green Dot (GDOT), and ECARX (ECX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Creatd (NASDAQ:VOCL) and Acacia Research (NASDAQ:ACTG) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Creatd has a beta of 4.05, meaning that its stock price is 305% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acacia Research has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Acacia Research has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.74%. Given Creatd's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Acacia Research is more favorable than Creatd.
Acacia Research has higher revenue and earnings than Creatd. Creatd is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acacia Research, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acacia Research received 282 more outperform votes than Creatd when rated by MarketBeat users.
Acacia Research has a net margin of 48.92% compared to Acacia Research's net margin of -1,086.31%. Creatd's return on equity of 11.47% beat Acacia Research's return on equity.
86.7% of Acacia Research shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Creatd shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Acacia Research shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Creatd had 19 more articles in the media than Acacia Research. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Creatd and 4 mentions for Acacia Research. Creatd's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Acacia Research's score of 0.12 indicating that Acacia Research is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Acacia Research beats Creatd on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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