CNDT vs. RDWR, IIIV, VVI, TTGT, IMXI, PSFE, ACCD, RILY, LQDT, and QNST
Should you be buying Conduent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conduent include Radware (RDWR), i3 Verticals (IIIV), Viad (VVI), TechTarget (TTGT), International Money Express (IMXI), Paysafe (PSFE), Accolade (ACCD), B. Riley Financial (RILY), Liquidity Services (LQDT), and QuinStreet (QNST).
Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) and Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
Radware has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Conduent. Radware is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Conduent presently has a consensus target price of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 136.22%. Radware has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.56%. Given Conduent's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Conduent is more favorable than Radware.
Conduent has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Radware has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Radware received 469 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.95% of users gave Radware an outperform vote while only 31.25% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.1% of Radware shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of Radware shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Radware had 4 more articles in the media than Conduent. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Radware and 11 mentions for Conduent. Radware's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Conduent's score of 0.13 indicating that Radware is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Conduent has a net margin of -5.13% compared to Radware's net margin of -8.26%. Conduent's return on equity of -2.48% beat Radware's return on equity.
Summary
Conduent beats Radware on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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