LTRPA vs. DTST, CHR, PHUN, HTCR, NXTT, BCOV, TRVG, ICAD, NSYS, and AWRE
Should you be buying Liberty TripAdvisor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty TripAdvisor include Data Storage (DTST), Cheer (CHR), Phunware (PHUN), HeartCore Enterprises (HTCR), Next Technology (NXTT), Brightcove (BCOV), trivago (TRVG), iCAD (ICAD), Nortech Systems (NSYS), and Aware (AWRE).
Data Storage (NASDAQ:DTST) and Liberty TripAdvisor (NASDAQ:LTRPA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
Data Storage has a net margin of 2.61% compared to Data Storage's net margin of -17.66%. Data Storage's return on equity of 49.17% beat Liberty TripAdvisor's return on equity.
In the previous week, Data Storage had 6 more articles in the media than Liberty TripAdvisor. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Data Storage and 2 mentions for Liberty TripAdvisor. Data Storage's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Liberty TripAdvisor's score of 0.29 indicating that Liberty TripAdvisor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
11.6% of Data Storage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.4% of Liberty TripAdvisor shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.2% of Data Storage shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Liberty TripAdvisor shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty TripAdvisor received 142 more outperform votes than Data Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.12% of users gave Data Storage an outperform vote while only 64.58% of users gave Liberty TripAdvisor an outperform vote.
Data Storage has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty TripAdvisor has a beta of 3.72, indicating that its share price is 272% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Data Storage has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Liberty TripAdvisor. Liberty TripAdvisor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Data Storage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Data Storage beats Liberty TripAdvisor on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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