ECVT vs. SEAT, CIFR, CRAI, RPAY, WTTR, ADEA, CRCT, AMPL, KFRC, and NWTN
Should you be buying Ecovyst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ecovyst include Vivid Seats (SEAT), Cipher Mining (CIFR), CRA International (CRAI), Repay (RPAY), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), Adeia (ADEA), Cricut (CRCT), Amplitude (AMPL), Kforce (KFRC), and NWTN (NWTN). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Ecovyst (NYSE:ECVT) and Vivid Seats (NASDAQ:SEAT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Ecovyst presently has a consensus target price of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 54.71%. Vivid Seats has a consensus target price of $10.15, indicating a potential upside of 89.01%. Given Vivid Seats' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vivid Seats is more favorable than Ecovyst.
Vivid Seats has higher revenue and earnings than Ecovyst.
Ecovyst has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vivid Seats has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ecovyst has a net margin of 10.70% compared to Vivid Seats' net margin of 9.21%. Ecovyst's return on equity of 10.83% beat Vivid Seats' return on equity.
In the previous week, Vivid Seats had 38 more articles in the media than Ecovyst. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Vivid Seats and 5 mentions for Ecovyst. Ecovyst's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Vivid Seats' score of 0.18 indicating that Ecovyst is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vivid Seats received 10 more outperform votes than Ecovyst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 40.74% of users gave Vivid Seats an outperform vote while only 35.29% of users gave Ecovyst an outperform vote.
86.7% of Ecovyst shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.9% of Vivid Seats shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Ecovyst shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.2% of Vivid Seats shares are owned by company 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.
Summary
Vivid Seats beats Ecovyst on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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