Green Dot (GDOT) Competitors

CompoSecure (NASDAQ:CMPO) and Green Dot (NYSE:GDOT) 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 valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of CMPO or GDOT?

37.6% of CompoSecure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Green Dot shares are held by institutional investors. 75.0% of CompoSecure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Green Dot shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend CMPO or GDOT?

CompoSecure currently has a consensus target price of $11.83, suggesting a potential upside of 67.37%. Green Dot has a consensus target price of $10.75, suggesting a potential upside of 19.98%. Given Green Dot's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CompoSecure is more favorable than Green Dot.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CompoSecure	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83
Green Dot	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has more volatility and risk, CMPO or GDOT?

CompoSecure has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Green Dot has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to CMPO or GDOT?

In the previous week, CompoSecure had 6 more articles in the media than Green Dot. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for CompoSecure and 4 mentions for Green Dot. Green Dot's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat CompoSecure's score of -0.04 indicating that CompoSecure is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CompoSecure	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Green Dot	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CMPO or GDOT?

Green Dot received 576 more outperform votes than CompoSecure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.73% of users gave CompoSecure an outperform vote while only 60.10% of users gave Green Dot an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CompoSecure	Outperform Votes 16 72.73%	Underperform Votes 6 27.27%
Green Dot	Outperform Votes 592 60.10%	Underperform Votes 393 39.90%

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, CMPO or GDOT?

CompoSecure has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Green Dot. CompoSecure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Green Dot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CompoSecure	$390.63M	1.45	$19.24M	$0.91	7.71
Green Dot	$1.50B	0.32	$6.72M	$0.13	69.01

Is CMPO or GDOT more profitable?

CompoSecure has a net margin of 4.82% compared to CompoSecure's net margin of 0.45%. CompoSecure's return on equity of 6.78% beat Green Dot's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CompoSecure	4.82%	-10.41%	46.30%
Green Dot	0.45%	6.78%	1.21%

Summary

CompoSecure beats Green Dot on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.