ECX vs. SMRT, MDRX, TDCX, NNOX, LQDT, CCRN, DSP, ACCD, LNZA, and MKTW
Should you be buying ECARX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECARX include SmartRent (SMRT), Veradigm (MDRX), TDCX (TDCX), Nano-X Imaging (NNOX), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Viant Technology (DSP), Accolade (ACCD), LanzaTech Global (LNZA), and MarketWise (MKTW). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
SmartRent (NYSE:SMRT) and ECARX (NASDAQ:ECX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
59.4% of SmartRent shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of SmartRent shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of ECARX shares are owned 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.
SmartRent has a net margin of -13.08% compared to SmartRent's net margin of -20.03%. SmartRent's return on equity of 0.00% beat ECARX's return on equity.
SmartRent has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ECARX. SmartRent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ECARX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SmartRent received 12 more outperform votes than ECARX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave ECARX an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave SmartRent an outperform vote.
SmartRent presently has a consensus price target of $4.18, suggesting a potential upside of 73.96%. ECARX has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 509.76%. Given SmartRent's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ECARX is more favorable than SmartRent.
SmartRent has a beta of 2, suggesting that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECARX has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its share price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SmartRent had 2 more articles in the media than ECARX. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for SmartRent and 2 mentions for ECARX. SmartRent's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat ECARX's score of -0.75 indicating that ECARX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SmartRent beats ECARX on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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