ZH vs. RMNI, CASS, OPRX, ZFOX, DHX, IIIV, OLO, RDWR, RSKD, and QNST
Should you be buying Zhihu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zhihu include Rimini Street (RMNI), Cass Information Systems (CASS), OptimizeRx (OPRX), ZeroFox (ZFOX), DHI Group (DHX), i3 Verticals (IIIV), OLO (OLO), Radware (RDWR), Riskified (RSKD), and QuinStreet (QNST). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Zhihu (NYSE:ZH) and Rimini Street (NASDAQ:RMNI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Rimini Street has a net margin of 5.02% compared to Zhihu's net margin of -20.00%. Zhihu's return on equity of -16.32% beat Rimini Street's return on equity.
In the previous week, Rimini Street had 2 more articles in the media than Zhihu. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Rimini Street and 0 mentions for Zhihu. Rimini Street's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Zhihu's score of 0.00 indicating that Rimini Street is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rimini Street has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Zhihu. Zhihu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rimini Street, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
28.9% of Zhihu shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.8% of Rimini Street shares are held by institutional investors. 13.6% of Zhihu shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of Rimini Street shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Rimini Street has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 85.95%. Given Rimini Street's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rimini Street is more favorable than Zhihu.
Zhihu has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rimini Street has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rimini Street received 142 more outperform votes than Zhihu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.49% of users gave Rimini Street an outperform vote while only 45.83% of users gave Zhihu an outperform vote.
Summary
Rimini Street beats Zhihu on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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