DLHC vs. RCMT, HQI, BGSF, HSON, TBI, TTEC, CCRN, III, SST, and BKKT
Should you be buying DLH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DLH include RCM Technologies (RCMT), HireQuest (HQI), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), TrueBlue (TBI), TTEC (TTEC), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Information Services Group (III), System1 (SST), and Bakkt (BKKT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
RCM Technologies (NASDAQ:RCMT) and DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) 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 media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
RCM Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DLH. RCM Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DLH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DLH received 138 more outperform votes than RCM Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave DLH an outperform vote while only 64.53% of users gave RCM Technologies an outperform vote.
RCM Technologies has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DLH has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RCM Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 25.00%. Given DLH's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe RCM Technologies is more favorable than DLH.
43.2% of RCM Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of DLH shares are held by institutional investors. 32.3% of RCM Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of DLH shares are held by company 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.
RCM Technologies has a net margin of 6.32% compared to RCM Technologies' net margin of 0.76%. DLH's return on equity of 74.07% beat RCM Technologies' return on equity.
In the previous week, RCM Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than DLH. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for RCM Technologies and 2 mentions for DLH. DLH's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat RCM Technologies' score of 0.30 indicating that RCM Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
RCM Technologies beats DLH on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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