DTST vs. LTRPA, PHUN, CHR, HTCR, NXTT, BCOV, TRVG, INUV, IRIX, and ICAD
Should you be buying Data Storage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Data Storage include Liberty TripAdvisor (LTRPA), Phunware (PHUN), Cheer (CHR), HeartCore Enterprises (HTCR), Next Technology (NXTT), Brightcove (BCOV), trivago (TRVG), Inuvo (INUV), IRIDEX (IRIX), and iCAD (ICAD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Liberty TripAdvisor (NASDAQ:LTRPA) and Data Storage (NASDAQ:DTST) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
Data Storage has a net margin of 1.53% compared to Data Storage's net margin of -17.66%. Data Storage's return on equity of 49.17% beat Liberty TripAdvisor's return on equity.
Liberty TripAdvisor received 142 more outperform votes than Data Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.12% of users gave Data Storage an outperform vote while only 64.58% of users gave Liberty TripAdvisor an outperform vote.
31.4% of Liberty TripAdvisor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.6% of Data Storage shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of Liberty TripAdvisor shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 42.2% of Data Storage shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Liberty TripAdvisor has a beta of 3.72, indicating that its share price is 272% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Data Storage has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Data Storage has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Liberty TripAdvisor. Liberty TripAdvisor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Data Storage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Data Storage had 2 more articles in the media than Liberty TripAdvisor. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Data Storage and 4 mentions for Liberty TripAdvisor. Data Storage's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Liberty TripAdvisor's score of 0.48 indicating that Liberty TripAdvisor is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Data Storage beats Liberty TripAdvisor on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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