ACCD vs. LQDT, IMXI, VVI, CNDT, RGP, SHAP, PRTH, PSFE, SEZL, and PAYS
Should you be buying Accolade stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accolade include Liquidity Services (LQDT), International Money Express (IMXI), Viad (VVI), Conduent (CNDT), Resources Connection (RGP), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Priority Technology (PRTH), Paysafe (PSFE), Sezzle (SEZL), and Paysign (PAYS). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Accolade (NASDAQ:ACCD) and Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) 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 analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Accolade has a beta of 2.15, suggesting that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liquidity Services has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.0% of Accolade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Accolade shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Accolade presently has a consensus price target of $14.14, suggesting a potential upside of 93.21%. Liquidity Services has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.97%. Given Accolade's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Accolade is more favorable than Liquidity Services.
Liquidity Services received 349 more outperform votes than Accolade when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.95% of users gave Liquidity Services an outperform vote while only 58.13% of users gave Accolade an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Accolade and Accolade both had 8 articles in the media. Liquidity Services' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Accolade's score of 0.31 indicating that Liquidity Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liquidity Services has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Accolade's net margin of -24.09%. Liquidity Services' return on equity of 18.51% beat Accolade's return on equity.
Liquidity Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Accolade. Accolade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liquidity Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Liquidity Services beats Accolade on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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