DLHC vs. RCMT, HQI, BGSF, HSON, TBI, TTEC, CCRN, MRAM, NOTE, and AMPX
Should you be buying DLH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DLH include RCM Technologies (RCMT), HireQuest (HQI), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), TrueBlue (TBI), TTEC (TTEC), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Everspin Technologies (MRAM), FiscalNote (NOTE), and Amprius Technologies (AMPX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) and RCM Technologies (NASDAQ:RCMT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
DLH has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RCM Technologies has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
DLH received 139 more outperform votes than RCM Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave DLH an outperform vote while only 64.38% of users gave RCM Technologies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, DLH had 6 more articles in the media than RCM Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for DLH and 1 mentions for RCM Technologies. RCM Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.93 beat DLH's score of -0.06 indicating that RCM Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RCM Technologies has a consensus target price of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 40.88%. Given RCM Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe RCM Technologies is more favorable than DLH.
67.3% of DLH shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of RCM Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 21.6% of DLH shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of RCM Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
RCM Technologies has a net margin of 6.39% compared to DLH's net margin of 0.76%. RCM Technologies' return on equity of 71.41% beat DLH's return on equity.
RCM Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DLH. RCM Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DLH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
RCM Technologies beats DLH on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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