NSTB vs. SMX, EJH, CUEN, XTKG, SVRE, CSCW, NUKK, ZPTA, OPTX, and NMHI
Should you be buying Northern Star Investment Corp. II stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northern Star Investment Corp. II include SMX (Security Matters) Public (SMX), E-Home Household Service (EJH), Cuentas (CUEN), X3 (XTKG), SaverOne 2014 (SVRE), Color Star Technology (CSCW), Nukkleus (NUKK), Zapata Computing (ZPTA), Syntec Optics (OPTX), and Nature's Miracle (NMHI). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Northern Star Investment Corp. II (NYSE:NSTB) and SMX (Security Matters) Public (NASDAQ:SMX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, SMX (Security Matters) Public had 3 more articles in the media than Northern Star Investment Corp. II. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for SMX (Security Matters) Public and 0 mentions for Northern Star Investment Corp. II. SMX (Security Matters) Public's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Northern Star Investment Corp. II's score of 0.00 indicating that SMX (Security Matters) Public is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SMX (Security Matters) Public's return on equity of 0.00% beat Northern Star Investment Corp. II's return on equity.
10.4% of Northern Star Investment Corp. II shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.7% of SMX (Security Matters) Public shares are held by institutional investors. 85.0% of Northern Star Investment Corp. II shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of SMX (Security Matters) Public shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Northern Star Investment Corp. II and SMX (Security Matters) Public both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Northern Star Investment Corp. II has a beta of -0.22, meaning that its share price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SMX (Security Matters) Public has a beta of -2.21, meaning that its share price is 321% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Northern Star Investment Corp. II and SMX (Security Matters) Public tied by winning 4 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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