ADEA vs. MAX, KFRC, WTTR, CRAI, CIFR, PSFE, NWTN, CSIQ, MLNK, and AMPL
Should you be buying Adeia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Adeia include MediaAlpha (MAX), Kforce (KFRC), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), CRA International (CRAI), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Paysafe (PSFE), NWTN (NWTN), Canadian Solar (CSIQ), MeridianLink (MLNK), and Amplitude (AMPL).
Adeia (NASDAQ:ADEA) and MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Adeia currently has a consensus price target of $15.67, suggesting a potential upside of 34.71%. MediaAlpha has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.76%. Given Adeia's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Adeia is more favorable than MediaAlpha.
Adeia has a net margin of 11.06% compared to MediaAlpha's net margin of -7.76%. Adeia's return on equity of 33.89% beat MediaAlpha's return on equity.
MediaAlpha received 28 more outperform votes than Adeia when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Adeia an outperform vote while only 64.15% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote.
Adeia has higher revenue and earnings than MediaAlpha. MediaAlpha is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adeia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.4% of Adeia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Adeia shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Adeia has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Adeia and Adeia both had 5 articles in the media. Adeia's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat MediaAlpha's score of 0.10 indicating that Adeia is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Adeia beats MediaAlpha on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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