STCN vs. HGBL, RSSS, ALJJ, NCTY, XELA, TTEC, V, MA, ADP, and FI
Should you be buying Steel Connect stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steel Connect include Heritage Global (HGBL), Research Solutions (RSSS), ALJ Regional (ALJJ), The9 (NCTY), Exela Technologies (XELA), TTEC (TTEC), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), and Fiserv (FI).
Steel Connect (NASDAQ:STCN) and Heritage Global (NASDAQ:HGBL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Heritage Global has a net margin of 20.40% compared to Steel Connect's net margin of 12.23%. Steel Connect's return on equity of 39.04% beat Heritage Global's return on equity.
47.3% of Steel Connect shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.5% of Heritage Global shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Steel Connect shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Heritage Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Steel Connect received 156 more outperform votes than Heritage Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.31% of users gave Steel Connect an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Heritage Global an outperform vote.
Heritage Global has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 163.16%. Given Heritage Global's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Heritage Global is more favorable than Steel Connect.
Steel Connect has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Global has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Steel Connect has higher revenue and earnings than Heritage Global. Heritage Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steel Connect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Steel Connect and Steel Connect both had 3 articles in the media. Steel Connect's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Heritage Global's score of 1.18 indicating that Steel Connect is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Steel Connect beats Heritage Global on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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