ECVT vs. AMPL, SEAT, PSFE, ADV, CIFR, CRAI, RPAY, WTTR, DLX, and RILY
Should you be buying Ecovyst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ecovyst include Amplitude (AMPL), Vivid Seats (SEAT), Paysafe (PSFE), Advantage Solutions (ADV), Cipher Mining (CIFR), CRA International (CRAI), Repay (RPAY), Select Water Solutions (WTTR), Deluxe (DLX), and B. Riley Financial (RILY). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Ecovyst (NYSE:ECVT) and Amplitude (NASDAQ:AMPL) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Ecovyst presently has a consensus target price of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 49.20%. Amplitude has a consensus target price of $11.20, indicating a potential upside of 20.43%. Given Ecovyst's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ecovyst is more favorable than Amplitude.
86.7% of Ecovyst shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of Amplitude shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Ecovyst shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.7% of Amplitude shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Amplitude received 4 more outperform votes than Ecovyst when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 35.29% of users gave Ecovyst an outperform vote while only 28.07% of users gave Amplitude an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Amplitude had 7 more articles in the media than Ecovyst. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Amplitude and 2 mentions for Ecovyst. Ecovyst's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Amplitude's score of 0.61 indicating that Ecovyst is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ecovyst has a net margin of 10.70% compared to Amplitude's net margin of -30.28%. Ecovyst's return on equity of 10.83% beat Amplitude's return on equity.
Ecovyst has higher revenue and earnings than Amplitude. Amplitude is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ecovyst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ecovyst has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amplitude has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ecovyst beats Amplitude on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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