VCSA vs. AMPX, ALAR, BKSY, HQI, AISP, NOTE, BTBT, MOND, FNGR, and III
Should you be buying Vacasa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vacasa include Amprius Technologies (AMPX), Alarum Technologies (ALAR), BlackSky Technology (BKSY), HireQuest (HQI), Airship AI (AISP), FiscalNote (NOTE), Bit Digital (BTBT), Mondee (MOND), FingerMotion (FNGR), and Information Services Group (III). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Amprius Technologies (NYSE:AMPX) and Vacasa (NASDAQ:VCSA) 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, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Vacasa has a net margin of -26.72% compared to Vacasa's net margin of -406.23%. Amprius Technologies' return on equity of 56.86% beat Vacasa's return on equity.
Amprius Technologies has a beta of 2.96, indicating that its stock price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vacasa has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Amprius Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 408.91%. Vacasa has a consensus price target of $10.63, suggesting a potential upside of 77.38%. Given Vacasa's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Amprius Technologies is more favorable than Vacasa.
Vacasa received 2 more outperform votes than Amprius Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 94.12% of users gave Amprius Technologies an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Vacasa an outperform vote.
5.0% of Amprius Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.5% of Vacasa shares are held by institutional investors. 14.9% of Amprius Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of Vacasa shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Amprius Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Vacasa. Amprius Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vacasa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Vacasa had 1 more articles in the media than Amprius Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Vacasa and 13 mentions for Amprius Technologies. Amprius Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Vacasa's score of -0.17 indicating that Vacasa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Amprius Technologies and Vacasa tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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