ECX vs. SMRT, MDRX, TDCX, BWMN, RDUS, BITF, GDOT, ACCD, LNZA, and ADSE
Should you be buying ECARX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECARX include SmartRent (SMRT), Veradigm (MDRX), TDCX (TDCX), Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), Radius Recycling (RDUS), Bitfarms (BITF), Green Dot (GDOT), Accolade (ACCD), LanzaTech Global (LNZA), and ADS-TEC Energy (ADSE). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
ECARX (NASDAQ:ECX) and SmartRent (NYSE:SMRT) 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, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
In the previous week, SmartRent had 2 more articles in the media than ECARX. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for SmartRent and 1 mentions for ECARX. SmartRent's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat ECARX's score of 0.00 indicating that SmartRent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ECARX currently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 575.68%. SmartRent has a consensus price target of $3.99, suggesting a potential upside of 51.14%. Given ECARX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ECARX is more favorable than SmartRent.
SmartRent received 13 more outperform votes than ECARX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave ECARX an outperform vote while only 51.85% of users gave SmartRent an outperform vote.
SmartRent has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ECARX. SmartRent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ECARX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ECARX has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartRent has a beta of 2, suggesting that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
59.4% of SmartRent shares are held by institutional investors. 20.0% of ECARX shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of SmartRent shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SmartRent has a net margin of -13.08% compared to ECARX's net margin of -20.03%. ECARX's return on equity of 0.00% beat SmartRent's return on equity.
Summary
SmartRent beats ECARX on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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