VOCL vs. HCSG, BBSI, MDRX, ML, KELYA, CNDT, REAX, HKD, MTC, and VVI
Should you be buying Creatd stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Creatd include Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Veradigm (MDRX), MoneyLion (ML), Kelly Services (KELYA), Conduent (CNDT), Real Brokerage (REAX), AMTD Digital (HKD), MMTec (MTC), and Viad (VVI). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Creatd (NASDAQ:VOCL) and Healthcare Services Group (NASDAQ:HCSG) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Creatd has a beta of 4.05, suggesting that its share price is 305% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Services Group has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Creatd had 17 more articles in the media than Healthcare Services Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Creatd and 2 mentions for Healthcare Services Group. Healthcare Services Group's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Creatd's score of 0.17 indicating that Healthcare Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Healthcare Services Group has a net margin of 2.44% compared to Creatd's net margin of -1,086.31%. Healthcare Services Group's return on equity of 11.44% beat Creatd's return on equity.
98.0% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Creatd shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Healthcare Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Creatd. Creatd is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Healthcare Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Healthcare Services Group has a consensus target price of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 25.65%. Given Healthcare Services Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Healthcare Services Group is more favorable than Creatd.
Healthcare Services Group received 296 more outperform votes than Creatd when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Healthcare Services Group beats Creatd on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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