PMTS vs. INSE, PAYS, IBEX, SEZL, PFMT, AIRJ, OB, QRHC, MOND, and PLBC
Should you be buying CPI Card Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CPI Card Group include Inspired Entertainment (INSE), Paysign (PAYS), IBEX (IBEX), Sezzle (SEZL), Performant Financial (PFMT), Montana Technologies (AIRJ), Outbrain (OB), Quest Resource (QRHC), Mondee (MOND), and Plumas Bancorp (PLBC).
Inspired Entertainment (NASDAQ:INSE) and CPI Card Group (NASDAQ:PMTS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Inspired Entertainment had 14 more articles in the media than CPI Card Group. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Inspired Entertainment and 6 mentions for CPI Card Group. Inspired Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat CPI Card Group's score of 0.36 indicating that CPI Card Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Inspired Entertainment received 116 more outperform votes than CPI Card Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.29% of users gave CPI Card Group an outperform vote while only 58.47% of users gave Inspired Entertainment an outperform vote.
77.4% of Inspired Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of CPI Card Group shares are held by institutional investors. 12.4% of Inspired Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of CPI Card Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Inspired Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 81.20%. CPI Card Group has a consensus price target of $35.50, suggesting a potential upside of 39.82%. Given CPI Card Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Inspired Entertainment is more favorable than CPI Card Group.
Inspired Entertainment has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CPI Card Group has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CPI Card Group has a net margin of 4.26% compared to CPI Card Group's net margin of 0.56%. CPI Card Group's return on equity of -9.10% beat Inspired Entertainment's return on equity.
CPI Card Group has higher revenue and earnings than Inspired Entertainment. CPI Card Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inspired Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Inspired Entertainment beats CPI Card Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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