JYNT vs. ACTG, APPS, REFR, XELB, RMCO, VHC, TIVO, FRG, DLB, and IDCC
Should you be buying Joint stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Joint include Acacia Research (ACTG), Digital Turbine (APPS), Research Frontiers (REFR), Xcel Brands (XELB), Royalty Management (RMCO), VirnetX (VHC), TiVo (TIVO), Franchise Group (FRG), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), and InterDigital (IDCC).
Acacia Research (NASDAQ:ACTG) and Joint (NASDAQ:JYNT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Acacia Research presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.45%. Joint has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 46.57%. Given Acacia Research's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Joint is more favorable than Acacia Research.
In the previous week, Acacia Research and Acacia Research both had 3 articles in the media. Acacia Research's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Joint's score of 0.94 indicating that Joint is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Acacia Research has a net margin of 40.89% compared to Acacia Research's net margin of -9.24%. Joint's return on equity of 13.02% beat Acacia Research's return on equity.
86.7% of Acacia Research shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.9% of Joint shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Acacia Research shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Joint shares are owned 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.
Acacia Research has higher revenue and earnings than Joint. Joint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acacia Research, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acacia Research received 2 more outperform votes than Joint when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave Joint an outperform vote while only 61.04% of users gave Acacia Research an outperform vote.
Acacia Research has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Joint has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Acacia Research beats Joint on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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