RILY vs. CNDT, IIIV, CLCT, QNST, TRHC, FHI, PJT, AMK, DBRG, and HPH
Should you be buying B. Riley Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B. Riley Financial include Conduent (CNDT), i3 Verticals (IIIV), Collectors Universe (CLCT), QuinStreet (QNST), Tabula Rasa HealthCare (TRHC), Federated Hermes (FHI), PJT Partners (PJT), AssetMark Financial (AMK), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), and Highest Performances (HPH).
Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) and B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) 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 risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
B. Riley Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Conduent. B. Riley Financial 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, B. Riley Financial has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.2% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.9% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Conduent had 8 more articles in the media than B. Riley Financial. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Conduent and 3 mentions for B. Riley Financial. Conduent's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat B. Riley Financial's score of 0.05 indicating that B. Riley Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Conduent has a net margin of -5.13% compared to Conduent's net margin of -9.28%. B. Riley Financial's return on equity of -2.50% beat Conduent's return on equity.
Conduent presently has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 157.14%. Given B. Riley Financial's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Conduent is more favorable than B. Riley Financial.
B. Riley Financial received 168 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.03% of users gave B. Riley Financial an outperform vote while only 30.00% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
Summary
Conduent beats B. Riley Financial on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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