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Should you be buying BigBear.ai stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BigBear.ai include MeridianLink (MLNK), Everbridge (EVBG), Zuora (ZUO), PDF Solutions (PDFS), Matterport (MTTR), Opera (OPRA), Couchbase (BASE), VTEX (VTEX), Enfusion (ENFN), and Coursera (COUR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
MeridianLink (NYSE:MLNK) and BigBear.ai (NYSE:BBAI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
MeridianLink has higher revenue and earnings than BigBear.ai. MeridianLink is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BigBear.ai, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MeridianLink currently has a consensus target price of $19.60, suggesting a potential upside of 5.55%. BigBear.ai has a consensus target price of $3.33, suggesting a potential upside of 122.22%. Given MeridianLink's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BigBear.ai is more favorable than MeridianLink.
82.7% of MeridianLink shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.6% of BigBear.ai shares are held by institutional investors. 21.3% of MeridianLink shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of BigBear.ai shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MeridianLink has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BigBear.ai has a beta of 3.73, indicating that its stock price is 273% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BigBear.ai had 3 more articles in the media than MeridianLink. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for BigBear.ai and 1 mentions for MeridianLink. MeridianLink's average media sentiment score of -0.17 beat BigBear.ai's score of -1.00 indicating that BigBear.ai is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MeridianLink received 5 more outperform votes than BigBear.ai when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 33.33% of users gave BigBear.ai an outperform vote while only 27.08% of users gave MeridianLink an outperform vote.
MeridianLink has a net margin of -13.86% compared to MeridianLink's net margin of -109.01%. MeridianLink's return on equity of 0.00% beat BigBear.ai's return on equity.
Summary
MeridianLink beats BigBear.ai on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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