EGIO vs. MCHX, STCN, ICLK, DHX, ZFOX, OOMA, OPRX, REFR, CUTR, and GAN
Should you be buying Edgio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edgio include Marchex (MCHX), Steel Connect (STCN), iClick Interactive Asia Group (ICLK), DHI Group (DHX), ZeroFox (ZFOX), Ooma (OOMA), OptimizeRx (OPRX), Research Frontiers (REFR), Cutera (CUTR), and GAN (GAN).
Marchex (NASDAQ:MCHX) and Edgio (NASDAQ:EGIO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Marchex had 9 more articles in the media than Edgio. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Marchex and 3 mentions for Edgio. Marchex's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Edgio's score of 0.16 indicating that Edgio is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
73.5% of Marchex shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.2% of Edgio shares are held by institutional investors. 20.3% of Marchex shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Edgio shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Marchex has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its share price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edgio has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Edgio has a consensus price target of $33.33, suggesting a potential upside of 267.92%. Given Marchex's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Edgio is more favorable than Marchex.
Marchex has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Edgio. Marchex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edgio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marchex received 308 more outperform votes than Edgio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.93% of users gave Marchex an outperform vote while only 6.25% of users gave Edgio an outperform vote.
Marchex has a net margin of -13.97% compared to Marchex's net margin of -35.10%. Edgio's return on equity of -14.94% beat Marchex's return on equity.
Summary
Marchex beats Edgio on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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