VRME vs. BNAI, TCTM, ZPTA, SGLY, XELA, DUOT, PRST, HOLO, VENA, and OPTX
Should you be buying VerifyMe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VerifyMe include Brand Engagement Network (BNAI), TCTM Kids IT Education (TCTM), Zapata Computing (ZPTA), Singularity Future Technology (SGLY), Exela Technologies (XELA), Duos Technologies Group (DUOT), Presto Automation (PRST), MicroCloud Hologram (HOLO), Venus Acquisition (VENA), and Syntec Optics (OPTX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
VerifyMe (NASDAQ:VRME) and Brand Engagement Network (NASDAQ:BNAI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
8.8% of VerifyMe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.8% of Brand Engagement Network shares are held by institutional investors. 18.1% of VerifyMe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 62.9% of Brand Engagement Network shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, VerifyMe had 10 more articles in the media than Brand Engagement Network. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for VerifyMe and 4 mentions for Brand Engagement Network. Brand Engagement Network's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat VerifyMe's score of 0.01 indicating that Brand Engagement Network is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
VerifyMe has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brand Engagement Network has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
VerifyMe received 8 more outperform votes than Brand Engagement Network when rated by MarketBeat users.
Brand Engagement Network has a net margin of 0.00% compared to VerifyMe's net margin of -9.30%. VerifyMe's return on equity of -16.79% beat Brand Engagement Network's return on equity.
VerifyMe has higher revenue and earnings than Brand Engagement Network.
VerifyMe presently has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 75.44%. Given VerifyMe's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe VerifyMe is more favorable than Brand Engagement Network.
Summary
VerifyMe beats Brand Engagement Network on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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