ADV vs. MAX, RPAY, PSFE, PAYO, CCIV, CNDT, VVI, IMXI, ACCD, and LQDT
Should you be buying Advantage Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advantage Solutions include MediaAlpha (MAX), Repay (RPAY), Paysafe (PSFE), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Churchill Capital Corp IV (CCIV), Conduent (CNDT), Viad (VVI), International Money Express (IMXI), Accolade (ACCD), and Liquidity Services (LQDT).
MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) and Advantage Solutions (NASDAQ:ADV) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
MediaAlpha has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Advantage Solutions. Advantage Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MediaAlpha, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Advantage Solutions has a net margin of -0.36% compared to Advantage Solutions' net margin of -7.76%. Advantage Solutions' return on equity of 0.00% beat MediaAlpha's return on equity.
MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advantage Solutions has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Advantage Solutions had 1 more articles in the media than MediaAlpha. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Advantage Solutions and 5 mentions for MediaAlpha. MediaAlpha's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Advantage Solutions' score of 0.10 indicating that Advantage Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MediaAlpha presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.76%. Advantage Solutions has a consensus target price of $3.43, suggesting a potential upside of 1.88%. Given Advantage Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe MediaAlpha is more favorable than Advantage Solutions.
MediaAlpha received 24 more outperform votes than Advantage Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.15% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote while only 27.78% of users gave Advantage Solutions an outperform vote.
64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.8% of Advantage Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Advantage Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
MediaAlpha beats Advantage Solutions on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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