LQDT vs. RGP, PRTH, LLNW, OPRX, RMNI, CMPR, OPEN, ANGI, QNST, and TTGT
Should you be buying Liquidity Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liquidity Services include Resources Connection (RGP), Priority Technology (PRTH), Limelight Networks (LLNW), OptimizeRx (OPRX), Rimini Street (RMNI), Cimpress (CMPR), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Angi (ANGI), QuinStreet (QNST), and TechTarget (TTGT).
Resources Connection (NASDAQ:RGP) and Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Resources Connection has higher revenue and earnings than Liquidity Services. Resources Connection is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liquidity Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Resources Connection has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liquidity Services has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
93.2% of Resources Connection shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Liquidity Services shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of Resources Connection shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Liquidity Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Resources Connection presently has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.27%. Liquidity Services has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.68%. Given Resources Connection's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Liquidity Services is more favorable than Resources Connection.
In the previous week, Liquidity Services had 2 more articles in the media than Resources Connection. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Liquidity Services and 8 mentions for Resources Connection. Liquidity Services' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Resources Connection's score of 0.54 indicating that Resources Connection is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liquidity Services has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Liquidity Services' net margin of 3.34%. Resources Connection's return on equity of 18.51% beat Liquidity Services' return on equity.
Liquidity Services received 421 more outperform votes than Resources Connection when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.00% of users gave Liquidity Services an outperform vote while only 53.66% of users gave Resources Connection an outperform vote.
Summary
Liquidity Services beats Resources Connection on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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