IESC vs. RNG, RUM, YELP, APPN, AI, PLXS, RPD, SPT, KLIC, and HAYW
Should you be buying IES stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IES include RingCentral (RNG), Rumble (RUM), Yelp (YELP), Appian (APPN), C3.ai (AI), Plexus (PLXS), Rapid7 (RPD), Sprout Social (SPT), Kulicke and Soffa Industries (KLIC), and Hayward (HAYW). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
IES (NASDAQ:IESC) and RingCentral (NYSE:RNG) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
IES has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RingCentral has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RingCentral has a consensus target price of $38.56, suggesting a potential upside of 26.25%. Given RingCentral's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe RingCentral is more favorable than IES.
IES has a net margin of 4.41% compared to RingCentral's net margin of -7.50%. IES's return on equity of 26.83% beat RingCentral's return on equity.
In the previous week, IES had 1 more articles in the media than RingCentral. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for IES and 7 mentions for RingCentral. IES's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat RingCentral's score of 0.28 indicating that IES is being referred to more favorably in the media.
86.6% of IES shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of RingCentral shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.2% of IES shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of RingCentral shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
RingCentral received 729 more outperform votes than IES when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.30% of users gave RingCentral an outperform vote while only 63.74% of users gave IES an outperform vote.
IES has higher revenue and earnings than RingCentral. RingCentral is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IES, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
IES beats RingCentral on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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