HSII vs. HCKT, CNDT, PGRU, HKD, SDA, CDLX, CCRN, VMEO, NVRI, and RILY
Should you be buying Heidrick & Struggles International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Heidrick & Struggles International include The Hackett Group (HCKT), Conduent (CNDT), PropertyGuru Group (PGRU), AMTD Digital (HKD), SunCar Technology Group (SDA), Cardlytics (CDLX), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Vimeo (VMEO), Enviri (NVRI), and B. Riley Financial (RILY). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
The Hackett Group (NASDAQ:HCKT) and Heidrick & Struggles International (NASDAQ:HSII) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
The Hackett Group currently has a consensus target price of $28.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.50%. Heidrick & Struggles International has a consensus target price of $35.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.12%. Given Heidrick & Struggles International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe The Hackett Group is more favorable than Heidrick & Struggles International.
78.1% of The Hackett Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.1% of Heidrick & Struggles International shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.4% of The Hackett Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Heidrick & Struggles International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
The Hackett Group has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heidrick & Struggles International has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
The Hackett Group pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Heidrick & Struggles International pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. The Hackett Group pays out 35.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Heidrick & Struggles International pays out 22.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Heidrick & Struggles International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
The Hackett Group has a net margin of 11.52% compared to The Hackett Group's net margin of 5.23%. Heidrick & Struggles International's return on equity of 43.58% beat The Hackett Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Heidrick & Struggles International had 1 more articles in the media than The Hackett Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Heidrick & Struggles International and 2 mentions for The Hackett Group. Heidrick & Struggles International's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat The Hackett Group's score of -1.27 indicating that The Hackett Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Heidrick & Struggles International has higher revenue and earnings than The Hackett Group. Heidrick & Struggles International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Hackett Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Hackett Group received 66 more outperform votes than Heidrick & Struggles International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.01% of users gave The Hackett Group an outperform vote while only 55.81% of users gave Heidrick & Struggles International an outperform vote.
Summary
The Hackett Group beats Heidrick & Struggles International on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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