VVI vs. MGRC, KAR, HCSG, PFMT, CTAS, CPRT, IRM, UNF, DLO, and FA
Should you be buying Viad stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viad include McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Performant Financial (PFMT), Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), UniFirst (UNF), DLocal (DLO), and First Advantage (FA).
Viad (NYSE:VVI) and McGrath RentCorp (NASDAQ:MGRC) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
Viad has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McGrath RentCorp has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Viad pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. McGrath RentCorp pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Viad pays out -105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McGrath RentCorp pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
McGrath RentCorp has a net margin of 14.70% compared to Viad's net margin of 0.61%. McGrath RentCorp's return on equity of 13.43% beat Viad's return on equity.
McGrath RentCorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Viad. Viad is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McGrath RentCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.9% of Viad shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of McGrath RentCorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Viad shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of McGrath RentCorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Viad currently has a consensus target price of $44.33, suggesting a potential upside of 26.85%. McGrath RentCorp has a consensus target price of $116.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.44%. Given Viad's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Viad is more favorable than McGrath RentCorp.
Viad received 50 more outperform votes than McGrath RentCorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.35% of users gave Viad an outperform vote while only 59.34% of users gave McGrath RentCorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Viad had 1 more articles in the media than McGrath RentCorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Viad and 2 mentions for McGrath RentCorp. McGrath RentCorp's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat Viad's score of 0.01 indicating that McGrath RentCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
McGrath RentCorp beats Viad on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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