ARQ vs. ZTEK, BLDE, CLMB, API, PAYS, SHAP, LGCL, LSAK, SEZL, and PRTH
Should you be buying ARQ stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ARQ include Zentek (ZTEK), Blade Air Mobility (BLDE), Climb Global Solutions (CLMB), Agora (API), Paysign (PAYS), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Lucas GC (LGCL), Lesaka Technologies (LSAK), Sezzle (SEZL), and Priority Technology (PRTH). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Zentek (NASDAQ:ZTEK) and ARQ (NASDAQ:ARQ) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
Zentek received 1 more outperform votes than ARQ when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave Zentek an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave ARQ an outperform vote.
Zentek has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ARQ. ARQ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zentek, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zentek has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Zentek's net margin of -8.15%. Zentek's return on equity of -4.65% beat ARQ's return on equity.
Zentek has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARQ has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
0.8% of Zentek shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of ARQ shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.2% of ARQ shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ARQ had 1 more articles in the media than Zentek. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ARQ and 3 mentions for Zentek. ARQ's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Zentek's score of -0.17 indicating that Zentek is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Zentek beats ARQ on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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