APCX vs. HKIT, DUOT, PRST, AHI, FRSX, ICLK, RBT, GRRR, CXAI, and SKIL
Should you be buying AppTech Payments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AppTech Payments include Hitek Global (HKIT), Duos Technologies Group (DUOT), Presto Automation (PRST), Advanced Health Intelligence (AHI), Foresight Autonomous (FRSX), iClick Interactive Asia Group (ICLK), Rubicon Technologies (RBT), Gorilla Technology Group (GRRR), CXApp (CXAI), and Skillsoft (SKIL). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
AppTech Payments (NASDAQ:APCX) and Hitek Global (NASDAQ:HKIT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
5.2% of AppTech Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.2% of Hitek Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of AppTech Payments shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AppTech Payments and Hitek Global both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Hitek Global has higher revenue and earnings than AppTech Payments.
In the previous week, AppTech Payments had 4 more articles in the media than Hitek Global. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for AppTech Payments and 1 mentions for Hitek Global. Hitek Global's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat AppTech Payments' score of -0.07 indicating that Hitek Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hitek Global has a net margin of 0.00% compared to AppTech Payments' net margin of -3,538.08%. Hitek Global's return on equity of 0.00% beat AppTech Payments' return on equity.
AppTech Payments has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Hitek Global has a beta of 2.16, indicating that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hitek Global beats AppTech Payments on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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