GEO vs. STGW, OPEN, LSPD, DSGR, CRCT, GDS, MEG, HURN, AVPT, and SCS
Should you be buying The GEO Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The GEO Group include Stagwell (STGW), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR), Cricut (CRCT), GDS (GDS), Montrose Environmental Group (MEG), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), AvePoint (AVPT), and Steelcase (SCS). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Stagwell (NASDAQ:STGW) and The GEO Group (NYSE:GEO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
The GEO Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stagwell. Stagwell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The GEO Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The GEO Group has a net margin of 4.51% compared to The GEO Group's net margin of -0.16%. Stagwell's return on equity of 8.88% beat The GEO Group's return on equity.
35.6% of Stagwell shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of The GEO Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Stagwell shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of The GEO Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Stagwell currently has a consensus price target of $8.06, suggesting a potential upside of 16.24%. The GEO Group has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.68%. Given Stagwell's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe The GEO Group is more favorable than Stagwell.
Stagwell has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The GEO Group has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The GEO Group had 1 more articles in the media than Stagwell. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for The GEO Group and 6 mentions for Stagwell. The GEO Group's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Stagwell's score of 0.16 indicating that Stagwell is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The GEO Group received 488 more outperform votes than Stagwell when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.38% of users gave Stagwell an outperform vote while only 72.71% of users gave The GEO Group an outperform vote.
Summary
The GEO Group beats Stagwell on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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