VVI vs. CNDT, IMXI, ACCD, LQDT, PSFE, RGP, RPAY, SHAP, PRTH, and SEZL
Should you be buying Viad stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viad include Conduent (CNDT), International Money Express (IMXI), Accolade (ACCD), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Paysafe (PSFE), Resources Connection (RGP), Repay (RPAY), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Priority Technology (PRTH), and Sezzle (SEZL). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) and Viad (NYSE:VVI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Viad shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Viad shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Viad has a net margin of 0.61% compared to Viad's net margin of -5.13%. Conduent's return on equity of 12.70% beat Viad's return on equity.
Viad has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Conduent. Viad is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Conduent has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viad has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Conduent presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 135.60%. Viad has a consensus price target of $44.33, suggesting a potential upside of 25.73%. Given Viad's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Conduent is more favorable than Viad.
In the previous week, Conduent had 3 more articles in the media than Viad. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Conduent and 0 mentions for Viad. Viad's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Conduent's score of 0.00 indicating that Conduent is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Viad received 286 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.68% of users gave Viad an outperform vote while only 31.25% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
Summary
Viad beats Conduent on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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