MLNK vs. MTTR, AVPT, AMPL, COUR, NYAX, LSPD, MKTW, CLBT, NABL, and XPER
Should you be buying MeridianLink stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MeridianLink include Matterport (MTTR), AvePoint (AVPT), Amplitude (AMPL), Coursera (COUR), Nayax (NYAX), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), MarketWise (MKTW), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), N-able (NABL), and Xperi (XPER). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
MeridianLink (NYSE:MLNK) and Matterport (NASDAQ:MTTR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.
82.7% of MeridianLink shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.0% of Matterport shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.1% of MeridianLink shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.1% of Matterport shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MeridianLink has higher revenue and earnings than Matterport. MeridianLink is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Matterport, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MeridianLink currently has a consensus target price of $19.60, suggesting a potential upside of 17.44%. Matterport has a consensus target price of $4.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.17%. Given MeridianLink's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe MeridianLink is more favorable than Matterport.
MeridianLink has a net margin of -14.01% compared to Matterport's net margin of -126.20%. MeridianLink's return on equity of -6.77% beat Matterport's return on equity.
In the previous week, Matterport had 12 more articles in the media than MeridianLink. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Matterport and 1 mentions for MeridianLink. Matterport's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat MeridianLink's score of 0.00 indicating that Matterport is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Matterport received 13 more outperform votes than MeridianLink when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 44.07% of users gave Matterport an outperform vote while only 27.08% of users gave MeridianLink an outperform vote.
MeridianLink has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Matterport has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MeridianLink beats Matterport on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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