GCI vs. BBCP, ADTN, TTEC, RGP, SOS, TINV, NEXN, RXT, GGR, and GAMB
Should you be buying Gannett stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gannett include Concrete Pumping (BBCP), ADTRAN (ADTN), TTEC (TTEC), Resources Connection (RGP), SOS (SOS), Tiga Acquisition (TINV), Nexxen International (NEXN), Rackspace Technology (RXT), Gogoro (GGR), and Gambling.com Group (GAMB). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) and Gannett (NYSE:GCI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.7% of Gannett shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Gannett shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Gannett had 10 more articles in the media than Concrete Pumping. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Gannett and 1 mentions for Concrete Pumping. Concrete Pumping's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Gannett's score of 0.00 indicating that Gannett is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Concrete Pumping currently has a consensus target price of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 25.55%. Gannett has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 57.73%. Given Concrete Pumping's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gannett is more favorable than Concrete Pumping.
Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gannett has a beta of 2.3, meaning that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Concrete Pumping has a net margin of 4.81% compared to Concrete Pumping's net margin of -4.67%. Gannett's return on equity of 7.76% beat Concrete Pumping's return on equity.
Concrete Pumping has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gannett. Gannett is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concrete Pumping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gannett received 129 more outperform votes than Concrete Pumping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.58% of users gave Gannett an outperform vote while only 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote.
Summary
Gannett beats Concrete Pumping on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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