QUAD vs. PFMT, ARC, ESEA, GASS, SLDP, GHM, PESI, ISSC, MNTX, and YELL
Should you be buying Quad/Graphics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quad/Graphics include Performant Financial (PFMT), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Euroseas (ESEA), StealthGas (GASS), Solid Power (SLDP), Graham (GHM), Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Innovative Solutions and Support (ISSC), Manitex International (MNTX), and Yellow (YELL).
Performant Financial (NASDAQ:PFMT) and Quad/Graphics (NYSE:QUAD) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Performant Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Quad/Graphics. Performant Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quad/Graphics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.2% of Performant Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.5% of Quad/Graphics shares are held by institutional investors. 9.4% of Performant Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Quad/Graphics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Quad/Graphics has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 99.12%. Given Performant Financial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Quad/Graphics is more favorable than Performant Financial.
Quad/Graphics has a net margin of -1.87% compared to Quad/Graphics' net margin of -6.61%. Performant Financial's return on equity of 18.28% beat Quad/Graphics' return on equity.
In the previous week, Quad/Graphics had 11 more articles in the media than Performant Financial. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Quad/Graphics and 1 mentions for Performant Financial. Performant Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Quad/Graphics' score of 0.00 indicating that Quad/Graphics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Quad/Graphics received 17 more outperform votes than Performant Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.99% of users gave Quad/Graphics an outperform vote while only 58.26% of users gave Performant Financial an outperform vote.
Performant Financial has a beta of 0.07, indicating that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quad/Graphics has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Quad/Graphics beats Performant Financial on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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