FORR vs. SGU, FARO, SOHU, KODK, AMSC, AMSWA, MIXT, UIS, OSPN, and BLZE
Should you be buying Forrester Research stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forrester Research include Star Group (SGU), FARO Technologies (FARO), Sohu.com (SOHU), Eastman Kodak (KODK), American Superconductor (AMSC), American Software (AMSWA), MiX Telematics (MIXT), Unisys (UIS), OneSpan (OSPN), and Backblaze (BLZE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Star Group (NYSE:SGU) and Forrester Research (NASDAQ:FORR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Star Group has higher revenue and earnings than Forrester Research. Star Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Forrester Research, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
40.4% of Star Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Forrester Research shares are held by institutional investors. 20.4% of Star Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.2% of Forrester Research shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Forrester Research has a consensus target price of $37.00, indicating a potential upside of 97.12%. Given Star Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Forrester Research is more favorable than Star Group.
Star Group has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forrester Research has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Forrester Research had 6 more articles in the media than Star Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Forrester Research and 2 mentions for Star Group. Star Group's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Forrester Research's score of 0.00 indicating that Forrester Research is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Forrester Research received 202 more outperform votes than Star Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.32% of users gave Star Group an outperform vote while only 59.78% of users gave Forrester Research an outperform vote.
Star Group has a net margin of 1.72% compared to Star Group's net margin of 0.63%. Forrester Research's return on equity of 11.07% beat Star Group's return on equity.
Summary
Forrester Research beats Star Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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